Rounded figures from one of our spam filtering servers on a weekday in May 2008.
40,000 email transactions.
32,000 emails blocked by a combination of RBL Blacklists and Greylisting.
Of the remaining 8000 emails, 2000 were deleted by the SpamGate System.
6000 emails delivered.
6000 out of 40,000 is 15% thus 85% of the email coming into this server is [...]

With 3dpixel.net seemingly taking on more and more businesses of late we’ve been talking to customers about spam filtering. Our policy in the past has always been to use spam filters in a passive way – i.e. get the filters to simply mark an email as spam and leave it to the recipient to filter [...]

Ok, they’ve changed the tariffs now to something resembling useful. So we’ve decided to make the plunge and purchase an iPhone. Herein lies the rub; we’re told that number migrations from Carphone Warehouse (o2 contract) take 24 hours. Ok that’s fine. We’re given a PAC code, we go home, plug it all in and activate.
We [...]