I've been having a massive spam problem since July. Some bulk spammer used by personal domain as the originator's domain in his spam. Hence, I got about 11000 delivery failures in about 2 days and now get around 100 spams a day. Thunderbird does a great job weeding it all out.

So I was curious as to how much spam my company gets. I was shocked - shocked, I tell you - by these numbers:



Yep. In 9 months we've received almost a half a billion e-mails with only 11 million being valid. Damn. Puts things in perspective.

(Ironport is an awesome tool. A crap load of companies report message patterns back to central servers to track spammers around the globe. Each IP and domain is given a reputation based on content and size and reliability. Very nice.