Monday, April 28, 2008
In re SPAM
Our company, which is reasonably large, put in a better "spam" filter that gives us little periodic reports on the flow of email into the organization. Sunday afternoon the system told us that in the previous 24 hours we had received 145,867 junk emails and 1,841 "good" emails. Yes, the spam/not-spam ratio is approximately 80 to 1, at least on a Sunday.
Unbelievable.
4 Comments:
By 
Georg Felis, at
Mon Apr 28, 01:04:00 PM:
TH, bad news. It is probably worse than 80:1 since most spam filters are set a little loose so they do not catch any legit emails, and therefore let a few bits of processed meat product into the company. After all, over a thousand legit business emails on a Sunday?
By TigerHawk, at
Mon Apr 28, 01:12:00 PM:
Well, we have around 400 sales reps, plus executives and people who get some personal email at their work address, so the number is probably reasonable.
By Ray, at
Mon Apr 28, 02:39:00 PM:
It'll stay this way until people start cracking down on spammers with ruthlessness, and without regard to collateral damage.
By Fire, at
Tue Apr 29, 09:12:00 PM:
"It'll stay this way until people start cracking down on spammers with ruthlessness, and without regard to collateral damage."
Come on now TH, have you forgotten that our supreme congressional delegation passed strict laws against spam?
It has worked so well that clearly you must be operating outside U.S. sovereign borders.
LOL
