Spam as CAN-SPAM

Friday, September 30. 2005

Regardless of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, Spam seems to be on the rise again. Most of it is luckily found in filters of various sorts, but lets at a my main eMail account to see how many fabulous offers I got yesterday...

1) First line of defense: Blacklists

No less than 62 unsolicited emails were stopped from even reaching the mail server by blacklist filters. Thanks to SBL, XBL and others I don't have to worry about them

2) Second line of defense: Spamassasin

27 spam mails were found and flagged by Spamassasin

3) Third line of defense: Mail.app

Lastly, 20 spam mails were flagged my Mail.app's own Junk Mail Filter

Now, the good news: No Spam actually landed in my inbox me that day thanks to the various filters(from this account), and more than 50% were actually blocked before even being processed by the mail server.
The bad news: That is no less than 109 Spam Mails. For a single account. For a single day.

I will do a little analysis or where the spam leads to in the next days.

Posted by Alexander von Below in News at 08:36 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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