Re: [tlug] Making sure people get the message

[<stephen@example.com>]

Mark Makdad writes:

 > > Spam becomes worse every day.  A few years ago, it was estimated that 75
 > > percent of all email is spam.  The figure has gotten much higher, I've
 > > seen it listed as 85 percent, and even 90 something.  

 > I'd like to know where these figures have come from; I have my doubts.

It depends on what you count as spam.  If you count (as Godwin does)
all the unauthorized attempts to connect to your system as spam, sure,
you're going to see sky-high figures.  Some of those are port scans,
not mail at all.  How do you count bounces from spoofed mail?
Viruses?

But there's no question about the fact that unwanted traffic on port
25 is a huge burden, and that it's definitely over 75% of the running
cost of receiving mail.