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Spam Statistics

by Bryan Strawser · Oct 25, 2004

Here’s some ridiculous statistics about spam coming into my two home email addresses – I’ve had them since 1994 – this represents email received since January 1st of this year. 168,365 spam messages – absolutely ridiculous.

Filtered Mail

9909 Good Messages

139734 Spam Messages (93%)

468 Spam Messages Per Day

SpamSieve Accuracy

307 False Positives

69 False Negatives (18%)

99.7% Correct

Corpus

16096 Good Messages

168365 Spam Messages (91%)

2396531 Total Words

Rules

93661 Blocklist Rules

2853 Whitelist Rules

Showing Statistics Since

1/1/04 12:00 PM

Filed Under: Technology

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