In an email from the IT Department the following was included:
The Spam filtering system is blocking over 8.4 million messages a month. This is about 84% of the 10 million plus messages the City receives from the Internet a month. ITD’s goal is to provide the City of Houston with reliable and functional Enterprise Messaging System.
I have to say that the software is doing a spectacular job. I have had not one false positive or negative since this software was instituted last year. If you’re responsible for this kind of thing for your company and want to know more, it’s apparently tagged as “Proofpoint Protection Server”
Roughly equal here. I think I told you about it when we got the message. Most of the mail (millions of messages) is spam; only a very small percent leaks through.
If both are true (and I’ve no reason to doubt; my home account is flooded with spam but I auto-nuke most of it) then really some 8 out of every 10 emails is spam. What a total waste of resources. Hard to believe 80% of all emails are spam (and thus undoubtedly have fake senders, etc).
Hm. I suppose Sturgeon’s Law applies. Which means that another full 10% of the messages, while not spam, are equally crappy!
Sturgeon’s Law? Something fishy there. At least it wasn’t the Wide-Mouth Bass Law. Or the Catfish Law.
Theodore Sturgeon’s law: 90% of everything is crap.
Back when I was on Road Runner, the majority of the email I received was junk. I used K9 to filter it out, and it did a good job.
Comcast seems to have its own junk mail filter. I don’t think I’ve received more than about 10 spams in the entire time since I moved here. And I don’t think that’s because the spammers haven’t found my email address yet, either; I don’t tend to keep it secret.