Re: legacy /8

[Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>]

In article <4BB897A7.60503 () consolejunkie net>, Leen Besselink
<leen () consolejunkie net> writes

> > (I saw a number in the last 2-3 days that 2-3% of spam is now being delivered
> > via SMTP-over-IPv6).  You may not need that gear as much as you thought...
>
> This maybe ?:
> http://labs.ripe.net/content/spam-over-ipv6
>
> "Out of the total number of emails received, 14% were received over
> IPv6, the rest over IPv4."

RIPE NCC has been running ipv6 mail for some time, so this may be higher
than average.

> "Looking only at the number of e-mails received over IPv6, 3.5% were
> classified as spam, the rest were legitimate."
>
> But then again this is a pretty low number as well:
>
> "Looking only at the number of emails received over IPv4: 31% were
> classified as spam, the rest were legitimate."
>
> Some of us deal with 98% or more.

Don't forget it also said:

        "this excludes messages already rejected by blacklisting and
        greylisting ... and sent to non-existent email addresses within
        the ripe.net domain"
and:
        "Additionally, our statistics only take our primary MX system
        into account (and not email sent from the secondary MX system to
        the primary)."
-- 
Roland Perry