Spam Statistics
This will turn out to be a statistics obsessed month…
Brightmail has useful charts showing spam statistics for internet email. Note the linear increase in spam in the past year. Of course it will have a ceiling, but not before it becomes cripplingly expensive in terms of server resources and time to deal with it.
In the short term, I need a combination of SpamAssassin rules, blacklists and whitelists, integrated within my mail client (Outlook 2003) with an easy way to tweak settings, and automatically update spam detection rules from a central source.


