On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:08:17PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: ... > > Actually you can be lucky that you are not subscribed to > lists.debian.org before the spam-filter. I needed to do that today, to > find some nasty errors in our new setup, which really sucked. Watching > your INBOX grow by ~50 Mails / min per Debian mailing list is not fun > at all. JFTR, read Joeys blog[1] to get some ideas on the numbers. > Currently about 99.5% of all incoming mail to lists.debian.org is > discarded before it gets delivered. On a bad day you might see perhaps > ~10% of the still delivered mail being spam, which means, that actually > only 0.05% of all incoming spam is being delivered to the lists, a rate > which i think is acceptable from the listmaster PoV. Even though we try > to do better every day. wow. what an interesting bit of information. thanks martin. A
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