Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse Graphs

The data for these graphs come from most of the approximately 300 DCC servers participating in the global network of DCC servers as of the middle of 2007, it involves millions of users, more than one hundred thousand client computer systems, and more than 250 servers collecting and counting checksums.

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mail checked at most DCC servers total spam ratio at most DCC servers

The graphs of checked mail are of mail transactions instead of addressees; a single message addressed to 1 or 1000 people is counted as 1. Mail messages with total target counts larger than 10 are bulk and so likely spam. Messages with target counts of millions or "many" have been declared spam by at least one target DCC client. Such messages are trapped spam because they have usually been sent to "spam traps," or addresses targeted only by spam.

The Spam Ratios are of likely spam and trapped spam to the total number of messages. DCC client programs can reject or discard bulk mail that is likely spam as well as trapped spam.

The graphs of flooded checksums are related to the total spam in the Internet. See also the DCC Reputation Graphs.

These graphs are mirrored on www.dcc-servers.net and www.rhyolite.com.
They are generated from cdcc stats values collected in RRDTOOL databases. The scripts that collect the data and render the graphs are in the DCC source. All dates and times are in UTC, which is between 3 and 7 hours ahead of time in the U.S.

Contact vjs@rhyolite.com.

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