Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

Michael Holstein michael.holstein at csuohio.edu
Thu Mar 4 21:02:37 UTC 2010


> Its like calling 5 ICMP packets a DDoS.
>   

Okay .. here's a fun exercise (granted, as a .edu, the FB stats are
statistically over-represented) .. this is yesterday.

total email : 1,594,435
from @*facebook* : 17,274 (1.1%)

Taken as a total of *legitimate* email that got through the spam filter ..

"legit" email : 79,072
from @*facebook* : 16,383 (20.7%)

Facebook's "notifications" account for ~21% of the mail making it past
the border SPAM appliances.

Top subjects (minus name field) :

1260 commented on your status...
    993 sent you a message on Facebook...
    826 wrote on your Wall...
    743 commented on your wall post...
    738 commented on her status...
    704 added you as a friend on Facebook...
    430 confirmed you as a friend on Facebook...
    287 commented on your photo...
    279 commented on his status...
    260 commented on a photo of you on Facebook..


Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University




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