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Spam Links Index > Stats & Archives > Local Stats

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Local Spam Stats

Stats for spam received on a Hotmail account starting September 2001.

Graph of the data in units relative to the average of each quantity.

Month	Size/kb	Number
Sep 2001	868	167
Oct 2001	1,517	318
Nov 2001	1,647	337
Dec 2001	1,956	392
Jan 2002	2,260	355
Feb 2002	4,824	546
Mar 2002	5,308	795
Apr 2002	5,312	753
May 2002	5,274	1023
Jun 2002	5,188	846
Jul 2002	5,044	899
Aug 2002	5,945	1174
Sep 2002	6,944	1262
Oct 2002	7,157	957
Nov 2002	5,552	637
Dec 2002	5,409	489
Jan 2003	3,123	567
Feb 2003	2,442	716

Note the sharp drop in number beginning October 2002 - this coincides with the introduction by Hotmail of Brightmail spam filtering. The level used on this spamtrap is the lowest possible, which shows the effectiveness of the filter quite well.

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