Spam Growth Slowing
Well, I didn’t manage to hit 20,000 spams in June. The final figure was just over 18,000. This means that my month-on-month growth was only 17% (21% if adjusted for length of month) – a noticeable slowdown from previous months.
However, there are two notable things happening. Firstly, the number of bounces I’m getting when people fake spam from one of my domains is rising significantly (although as I don’t file bounces as spam yet, I don’t have figures). If I counted that in, I’d probably be closer to 25,000 now.
Secondly, SpamAssassin’s ‘catch-rate’ is slipping again. I don’t have exact figures yet (although I should probably put together a script to count this), but I find myself spending more and more time filing things manually as spam that SpamAssassin didn’t catch. Time to flesh out my spam catching strategy a bit more…
