[SC-Help] Re: What's wrong now, Spamcop?

[Garen Erdoisa]

Jim wrote:
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>> Does he know how many users there are of SPAMCOP?
> 
> I would like to know how many users of SpamCop there are.  What 
> percentage of spam reports are coming from users versus Spam traps.

My thoughts on the issue:

No idea how many users spamcop has.

However for the percentages of spam it's not an exact figure, but if you 
look at the statistical charts for daily use, it shows for the last 24 
hours about 856k messages reported by people.

This is a constantly changing number. If you take what Don D'Minion just 
mentioned in his post that spamcop handles about 3 million message per 
day on average, that suggests a current ratio of about 1/4th to 1/3rd 
are human reports, and to 2/3rds to 3/4ths are spamtrap reports or other 
sources such as data feeds from spam filter software.

The spamtrap data is not included on the statistics charts they make 
available to the public. Those charts mostly indicate spamcop usage 
patterns by people, not total spam processed by spamcop, nor do they 
indicate anything about total spam on the Internet.

My .02
Garen