a load of spam

[danny_galaga]

some stats from a friend who works at the uni at my home town, two campuses:

DATE            TAGGED  QUARANTINED     TOTAL   % QUARANTINED 
2007-03-18-SUN  308     35558   39584   90%   
2007-03-17-SAT  390     47971   52610   91%   
2007-03-16-FRI  912     58467   78040   74%   
2007-03-15-THU  749     54479   75810   72%   
2007-03-14-WED  550     55199   77788   71%   
2007-03-13-TUE  522     60545   87771   69%   
2007-03-12-MON  839     50641   73635   69%   

=> On weekdays, 71% of email is quarantined as SPAM (not delivered).
=> On weekends, 90% of email is quarantined as SPAM (not delivered).
=> Up to 60,000 SPAM emails are quarantined each day!

i wonder how so many uni students attract so much spam? this is from a system he has devised. of course he hasnt got any recognition from it and microshaft are trying to push something else on to them which will probably cost brazillions and be less effective...

[hypernova]

Usually a tag line like "FREE _______"  or "YOU'VE JUST WON ________" will attract any idiot, and freeloading college students fit that category quite well.  I tell ya, young adults today just aren't that bright.

A tagline for free porn especially is probably a guaranteed catch for a spam company.

[4Aaron GE]

Not all of it is that stupid opt in crap.  If you read the headers, there's a lot of stuff that takes advantage of the naming conventions that schools use.  Mine is first initial, first few letters of last name, bunch of numbers.  So reading the header of something that was delivered to say, Ken Masters, using kmas2084@school.edu would also show you that things were sent to other emails beginning with "kmas" in the system.