Spam on the rise!



An interesting trend I've noted in my spam filter, it appears that spam is on the rise.

The telling part is the overall percentage of spam vs ham has gone up since the Blue Frog spam war started. It appears the Piratefish has been earning it's keep lately - right now spammers are getting through about 2-3% of the time, and those messages are easily classified by my clients as what they are.

Adding more blacklists helps, and keep on training your Bayesian filters!
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John C. Silvia said…
I'd sure love to have the fish do this for me. Unfortunately, this was my own creation using a spreadsheet.

The numbers are all there in the daily logwatch output - you just gotta dig through and transcribe them - I'd much rather do this automatically somehow.

If it were possible, I'd want to collect these numbers anywhere - like a nice flat file, and then feed them through MRTG. The catch is that I don't know how to pick those numbers out of LogWatch's data easily.

Any suggestions?
12:13 AM
John C. Silvia said…
Well, as it happens, I'm closer to getting charts out of it - I have a friend looking at how gnugraph works to see if he can convince it to make some nice charts for me.

I've already got a script to pull out the critical numbers from each daily logwatch report and put them into a flat file on the fish - just gotta plot them and there'd be charts!

Any gnugraph geniuses out there wanna help?
8:06 PM
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