[116931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTAs used
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Wed Aug 26 19:29:59 2009
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:29:39 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <14510.1251316871@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:01:11PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> (Seriously - if 95% of the mail out there is spam, then the top 4-5 MTAs are
> probably the ratware that's sending out the spam. Something to consider...)
That's true, especially given the size of the installed base.
So in terms of (a) installations (b) message count (c) message volume
(d) recipient count (e) etc. those ratware programs have got to be so
far ahead of the usual suspects (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc.) that
it's not even a race.
---Rsk
