Comments on: Is spam starting to decline? http://blog.orenblog.org/2004/03/16/is_spam_startin/ This is where you say something clever Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:54:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jim http://blog.orenblog.org/2004/03/16/is_spam_startin/#comment-357 Fri, 19 Mar 2004 04:55:37 +0000 http://orensr.wordpress.com/2004/03/16/is_spam_startin/#comment-357 It’s probably a local feature in the general trend. I’ve been collecting data on incoming spam to several accounts for a couple of years now, and it still looks to be headed for the outer atmosphere:

http://staff.washington.edu/jimfl/spamplot.gif

]]> By: JIm http://blog.orenblog.org/2004/03/16/is_spam_startin/#comment-356 Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:43:12 +0000 http://orensr.wordpress.com/2004/03/16/is_spam_startin/#comment-356 Hrm.

What’s the change in overall email volume, though? Because it seems to me that overall email volume has increased dramatically with all the virus/worm traffic generated by the bagle/mydoom/netsky variants. Perhaps the percentage decrease could be accounted for by a corresponding increase in virus-related traffic.

Or, to put the question more clearly: what is the raw number of messages in the categories of Spam, Virus, and Ham for the past three months?

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