mjp
Founding member
I have a "catch-all" email box set up at my smog.net domain. What that means is if someone sends email to some address that doesn't exist @smog.net, the server doesn't bounce it, it accepts it and sticks it in the catch-all. I don't actually go through those, I just use it as a curiosity, to gauge how much spam the domain gets.
I hadn't checked the box recently, so I was a bit surprised when I peeked in there today. Turns out I'm getting 25,000 spam messages every day. That's roughly one every 3 seconds, three quarters of a million a month, or 9 million a year. Which is an impressive 36 gigabytes of spam a year.
On one domain.
Granted, it's an old domain, and the older they are, the more spam they accumulate. But damn. It gives you some idea of just how much spam is bouncing around out there...there have to be 10's of millions of crap messages being sent every second.
Just thought I'd share that, for no reason in particular.
I hadn't checked the box recently, so I was a bit surprised when I peeked in there today. Turns out I'm getting 25,000 spam messages every day. That's roughly one every 3 seconds, three quarters of a million a month, or 9 million a year. Which is an impressive 36 gigabytes of spam a year.
On one domain.
Granted, it's an old domain, and the older they are, the more spam they accumulate. But damn. It gives you some idea of just how much spam is bouncing around out there...there have to be 10's of millions of crap messages being sent every second.
Just thought I'd share that, for no reason in particular.