I've seen a massive increase lately. They all go in the Spam folder so it's still no biggy, but 90% junk sounds about right at the moment!

That just means that your ISP/email provider other isps are getting better at filtering them (or the spammers are getting worse at not getting filtered). Just cause you don't see the forest doesn't mean someone else ain't cut it down!

For me it dropped from 1000+ a day down to about 50-100 around the first/second week of May. I assumed that some of the bots had been turned off.

Lucky them - we're current at 99.7% of all inbound messages to our company as spam, and another 0.5% being other neer-do well virus type traffic. Luckily its filtered 'in the cloud' so we don't have to churn through it here.

Also, my webmail account which generally has 650 messages in the spam box (Messages over 30 days automatically get ditched) is now showing nearly 1500. Based on the number of other messages I recieve there, Id say its about 96% spammage.

If only we couldn't divert all that processed meat to 3rd world countries - we could cure world hunger in one fell swoop.

In the same way they stopped junk paper mail? Why should they?

..relatively. I've gone from 1-2 per week to about 5 per day. Thankfully most of it is on my hotmail account. My wife is getting 500+ per day! She's given up on email as a result.

at least in our own networks, but that's because we use good, reputable DNSBLs (every bit I do get goes straight to SpamCop, and PhishTank if appropriate), and I aggressively block dynamic asdl networks in Turkey, Poland, Brasil, etc.

What must happen is that the ISPs block port 25 for domestic broadband customers, unless those customers pay for a static IP and can prove they are neither an open relay not a source of spam.

"Some bloke rang up the other day because I'd forwarded his crap to SpamCop and he was furious because he said that "info@" was fair game. Seems that cluesticks are going to be required for the foreseeable future."

AS long as its "info@validdomainthathasreversednstocheck.com", ie you can check it against where its meant to be come from to confirm the server, it is fair game, filtering based on the start of a email is stupid, if hat was his entire email address tho then hes an idiot

For 3 years I had almost no spam to my @ntlworld.com address. But on April 24th the dam burst and now I get 6 to 15 per day. I have no idea why it suddenly started on that day. But hey, it's not all bad; I now know what Acai is. See, spam can be educational!

A couple of weeks ago, we were subject to a mail bombing - over 100,000 in under 24 hours. And our mail provider is uh..... Message Labs.

Worse, even though we set things up to block the mail, it still kept returning - I finally lost my temper with them and eventually they did get it sorted. But we had received around 400k of the bloody things, and they had stuffed the firewall and the router for good measure.

Still, it's all died off now - till next time

Across three personal domains and my Gmail, I'm getting a spam rate of... wait for it... 99.894%. SpamAssassin means that I'm seeing about 3-4 spam messages per day, out of ~100/day that it catches, and a daily total of ~120-130 messages.

Ugh.

Most of the stuff that gets through SA seems to be image spam, and what's annoying is that it's all stuff that a bit of rudimentary image processing will pick up on and eliminate. Maybe that's what my final-year project needs to be -- an anti-image-spam add-on for Procmail.

Set a catch-all address on a domain and there's a good chance you'll get a lot more than 90% junk, I've seen cases where not only do spammers send to every common forename @ but also to all 4 letter combinations @.

I think many of those never get spotted by the people who provide these low figures of only 90% because they get blocked before hitting spam filtering. Also the figures are probably distorted as they come from the likes of messagelabs whose users are a pre-selected bunch of relatively sophisticated users and big spenders, not the small businesses who've never even heard of messagelabs and use much less sophisticated spam filtering.

At one point I set the catch-all for a high visibility domain name to a gmail account - it ran out of space in a week (that was when Gmail could only store 1GB - about 250,000 messages if I recall...).

If that's a common experience I guess most of the internet "backbone" bandwidth is being used for spam. Everything would be faster and cheaper if spam could be killed.

is the idoits who are real hits... who actually do want the tat that is being sold. as a 0.01% hit rate makes all the rest justifiable...

I do not like spam. I will not buy from any company that emails me, at all regardless. As I do not wish to be in that 0.01% that are the hits that make spam for the rest of us.

I also refused to send emailshots for my employer on principle, (I still have my job and have not been asked again).