V9 Blog in Spam

15 Dec

Posted by fx in Blogging (Email, Spam, Statistics)

One way of measuring the growth of a blog must be in spam statistics. Its now halfway through the month and we’ve almost broken last months spam counts. Considering we’ve pretty new, and still growing thats a lot of spam!

Spam detected
Ham detected
Missed spam
False positives

2008-12
2,826
44,933
1
0

2008-11
3,585
58,589
9
1

2008-10
954
9,001
1
5

2008-09
662
4
2
0

2008-08
8
1
1
0

75% of Spam Shut Down?

13 Nov

Posted by fx in Newswire (Email, McColo, Spam)

Up to 75% of the internets spam has allegedly been shut down! McColo, a hosting provider allegedly responsible for up to 75% of the spam we receive was cut off by their upstream provider –
Thousands of pieces of spam were stopped in its tracks on Tuesday when a hosting site known for relaying spam was [...]