Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] free Rolex with Canadian erection enlargement medication

["Ryan Thornton" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

In gmail I have mlug discussions whitelisted so it doesn't matter what
the subject line and content are.
But yeah, I still get a few normal spam that hit gmail.

On Dec 2, 2007 3:04 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Yes, I'm kidding.  If this message got through your spam filter, you
> probably need a new spam filter.
>
> The crazy thing is, I get so much of that kind of spam that some of it
> does leak through.  I recently noticed that one of my university email
> addresses was accounting for the vast majority of my spam -- I have been
> getting about 130 spam messages per day through that account.  Once I
> realized that, I started routing all of those messages to a different
> inbox without spam filtering and I discovered that no more than 1-2 out of
> the 130 messages per day were legit.  That's pretty amazing.
>
> So I talked to our IT guys about it and they said they were getting 1.4
> million messages per month into our system and delivering 200,000 of those
> messages.  That is, about 1.2 million detectable spam messages per month,
> or 40,000 per day, are sent to our department's server.  We have maybe 400
> email addresses, so that would be 100 spam messages per day per person.
>
> My worry is that this can continue to get worse.  What's to stop the
> spammers from sending us 1,000 messages per person per day?  Or more?  We
> need to adopt policies that kill these messages with minimal CPU usage,
> preferrably farther out on the perimeter (as they enter umn.edu) so that
> we don't have every division of our University reinventing the wheel.
>
>
> I think I'll resend this with a different subject line so that people will
> see it -- it is a serious issue but I couldn't resist joking about it.
>
> Mike
>
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