OT: Spam

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:57:03AM +1000, Ken Cole may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> I was in a review meeting this morning and we were given some stats
> that were nearly unbelievable about spam that I just had to share as a
> bit of a quiz.
> 
> Our company through its email portal receives approximately 3 billion emails:

Just the GE Aviation division?  Or all of GE?

> 1. Per Month
> 2. Per Quarter
> 3. Per Year

#1 if all of GE, #2 if just Aviation.

> The percentage delivered (not spam) is:
> 
> 1. 3.7%
> 2. 37%
> 3. 73%

#1.

> It will be interesting to see what people think. :)

Yeah...should tell you who's ever adminned an email server and who hasn't.
:)

And those are probably just complete messages, not even probe attempts.  If
I go through my logs at one client site, there's a lot of spam, but there
are also, if you parse it correctly, a tonne of disconnects with no
HELO/EHLO/EXPN/VRFY command ever issued.  So the signal to noise ratio gets
even worse.

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