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82% of email is spam82% of email is spamPosted May 6, 2004 13:59 UTC (Thu) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763)Parent article: 82% of email is spam Well, the 82% figure sounds about right for me. For a while, it seemed to be getting better, but it's now dramatically worse again. It's depressing, because SpamAssassin used to work brilliantly, but it just doesn't seem to be coping any more. Its success rate seems to have dropped from about 95% to around 50%. At work, we use a 3-tiered strategy that's pretty effective. Firstly, we use RBL blacklists, and reject connections from malconfigured mail servers (eg with DNS problems); secondly, we use SpamAssassin on everything that reaches our queue; thirdly, we've put most of our users onto Thunderbird, and the built-in adaptive filtering is pretty good at mopping up anything that gets through SpamAssassin, once it's been trained. For me personally, the biggest problem is accessing my (POP-based) mail via the webmail gateway when I'm away from home: with no spam filtering at that stage, I have to wade through 3 screenfuls of crap to find the 1 legitimate mail waiting for me....
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