The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: danny_galaga on March 23, 2007, 09:06:18 am
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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...
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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.
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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.