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Too much Spam

Posted by on July 15, 2005

I’m forwarding all the spam that Spamassassin, Clamav, and various rbls catch from our mailserver to a Gmail account in case there’s a false positive. Gmail does a pretty good job out of deciding what items out of the forwarded spam are false positives. If someone suspects there’s a false positive within the forwarded spam, it’s also very easy for someone to log in and do a quick search. The amazing thing to me is how the level of spam keeps growing. Gmail keeps a month’s worth of spam and as of 4:39 PM on July 15th, 2005, we have 64,036 pieces of spam that have been forwarded to the Gmail account which adds up to 2,134 pieces of spam a day!