[SpamCop-List] Re: Spamcop Statistics

[Ellen]

"Dorian Gray" <D.Gray at picture.oscar.wilde> wrote in message
news:D.Gray-452397.18592002022005 at news.cesmail.net...
> In article <ctr2e5$oqi$3 at news.spamcop.net>,
>  "Ellen" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> > There are various reasons why you may see anomolies in the stat graphs.
I
> > cannot go into detail about them.
>
> Thanks Ellen.  By anomalies, do you mean the spikes?

the things that people ask about -- which include spikes, dips and other
variations from the presumable norm


>Okay, so they'll
> remain a mystery.  But can you go into detail about the consistently
> lower level of submitted spam since September?

No

>Can you say whether or
> not it simply corresponds to the change in the limit on the age of
> accepted spam from 3 to 2 days, which IIRC also went with a
> recommendation that only spam less than 24 hours old was of any real
> usefulness to Spamcop?

The vast majority of the spam reports are and were submitted in under 24
hours or less and the traps run in near realtime.


Ellen
SpamCop