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

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