[geeks] SPAM stats, was something about temptation and spam

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 21 Apr 2004 @ 13:15 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> I've seen reports indicating they're already doing this.

That's what a lot of the spam I've gotten is.

In fact, I'm now seeing content spam using the tricks of the most
successful non-content spam.

Of course, I'm also seeing my ISP's filters learning the new stuff.

I'm not keeping stats on my SPAM.  I get around 30-100 spams per day.

Here's some recent stats for me over the last few weeks (trimmed a bit):

 Statistics from 4.8.2002 to 23.4.2004	    <-- start date bogus 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
***** Table showing the most successful subjects:
+----+----Subject-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
|  1 | *****SPAM*****                               |   23 |  2.25 % |
|  2 | DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL |   15 |  1.47 % |
|  3 | (unknown)                                    |    8 |  0.78 % |
|  4 | *****SPAM***** Online pharmacy, V I A G R A  |    8 |  0.78 % |
|  5 | *****SPAM***** Home Loans as low as 2.95%    |    6 |  0.59 % |
|  6 | Never been easier                            |    4 |  0.39 % |
|  7 | *****SPAM***** Want to have st.ronger or.gas |    4 |  0.39 % |
|  8 | *****SPAM***** WEEKEND VIAGRA                |    4 |  0.39 % |
|  9 | Test our Internet pharmacy, buy Vmagra and o |    3 |  0.29 % |
| 10 | *****SPAM***** lowestRates possible          |    3 |  0.29 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
|    | other                                        |  944 | 92.37 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+

***** Most used email clients:
+----+----Mailer------------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
|  1 | (unknown)                                    |  742 | 72.60 % |
|  2 | Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000               |   53 |  5.19 % |
|  3 | Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x                |   35 |  3.42 % |
|  4 | Microsoft Outlook Express 5.x                |   22 |  2.15 % |
|  5 | Mozilla/5.x                                  |   18 |  1.76 % |
|  6 | Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32)          |   17 |  1.66 % |
|  7 | Microsoft Outlook                            |   16 |  1.57 % |
|  8 | Microsoft Outlook IMO                        |   13 |  1.27 % |
|  9 | Pegasus Mail for Win                         |    8 |  0.78 % |
| 10 | The Bat!                                     |    6 |  0.59 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
|    | other                                        |   92 |  9.00 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+

***** Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day:

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hour  0         5           11          17          23
!!!!! Warning: 11 message(s) not counted.


***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of month:

100% -----------------------------#--------------------------------- - 86
 90% -----------------------------#---#----------------------------- msgs
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      * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 
 day  1         6           12          18          24            31
!!!!! Warning: 52 message(s) not counted.


***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of week:

100% ---------#------------------- - 163
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      *   *   *   *   *   *   *   
     Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
!!!!! Warning: 31 message(s) not counted.

***** Final summary:
      Total number of messages:             1022
      Total number of different authors:    989
      Total number of different subjects:   916
      Total size of messages (w/o headers): 2419499 bytes
      Average size of a message:            2367 bytes

***** Generated by MailListStat v1.3, (C) 2001-2003 <marki (at) nexin.sk>
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