Spam Statistics 2008
Here are my numbers for 2008 (2007 stats. in square brackets) broken into two parts:
First half of 2008 (up to 30 June 2008):
227659 e-mails received (plus the GMail ones).
211699Â spams filtered by MailWasher Pro.
93% spam.
Second half of 2008 (up to 30 December 2008):
62,319Â e-mails received (plus the GMail ones).
41,672Â spams filtered by MailWasher Pro.
66% spam.
Combined
289,978 e-mails received (plus the GMail ones) [356,032 so minus 19%] .
253,371Â spams filtered by MailWasher Pro [319,499 -Â minus 21%].
87% spam then.
Commentary
The headline figures look good, but that split is what’s important. Basically in June 2008 with my spam stats. looking like heading for another record, I decided to kill my “catch-all” e-mail set-ups and painstakingly create all legitmate mailboxes and aliases. And with that, the spam stats. have come down dramatically.
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