Updated SpamStopsHere Stats

October 12, 2005

I’ve been wanting to post a little more info on my SpamStopsHere stats but needed some motivation and since I might be getting some additional traffic due to Deane’s latest post on Gadgetopia, I figure I better post some updated content. So here goes:

The reports in and of themselves aren’t all that impressive but the numbers are pretty staggering. I’ve had smitty.net for 8 years as a personal domain name shared by about 10 other members of my family. You wouldn’t think that one low visibility domain name would get much spam, but you’d be wrong. So far this year, smitty.net has received 773,017 email messages. Of that, 765,587 of those emails were spam (99.04%)!

SpamStopsHere 2005 Summary

Here is a screenshot showing the breakdown of where all the emails get filtered. It’s pretty crazy to think that there are people out there just throwing every name combination they can automate. So while we as end-users may see a lot of spam (before SpamStopsHere), the reality is that there is 100x more being sent out by spammers in the hopes of catching real mailboxes.

SpamStopsHere 2005 Totals by Filter

These last two charts show the email to my domain by month for 2004 and 2005. Two interesting things to note about what these put into perspective.

  • First, the amount of spam from February 2004 to December 2004 increased ten-fold. I was getting 40-50 spam emails a day before I signed up with SpamStopsHere. I can only imagine how miserable it might have been at the height of the deluge.

    • Second, and somewhat promising, is the fact that things have been on a downward slope since December 2004. I don’t know if it is a general indication that spammers are slowing down (due to low returns or laws), or if it is a side benefit of using SpamStopsHere where my domain no longer looks like an attractive target.

SpamStopsHere 2004 Totals by Month

SpamStopsHere 2005 Totals by Month

So, if you haven’t already, go try out their service. In regards to Deane’s comments about passing the referrals on to me: I’d be delighted to take the credit (not sure what I get out of it, have to do some research) but this is something that I believe in so much that I really don’t want to compromise my vote of confidence in any way by providing a referral link back to them.

Here are some of my other earlier posts about SpamStopsHere:
- Spam Filter
- SpamStopsHere.com Stats
- Spam is out of control

There! More info about SpamStopsHere and a new post to push that stupid “United Airlines has ducks” post down the page. Thanks for visiting. You probably won’t find too many other interesting posts here on the site since I’ve been busy with our online family calendar.

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