Mollom, a spam prevention tool that competes with Automattic’s Akismet, has blocked a stunning 100,000,000 spam messages from appearing on websites, social networks and blogs since the product was introduced about 14 months ago.
Given that the product has only been out of beta since September 2008, that gives you an idea of just how much junk travels the digital highways. According to Mollom co-founder Dries Buytaert (also the creator of Drupal, one of the most used open source content management systems in the world), the solution is now used by about 10,000 websites across the globe, and the rate at which it is blocking spam messages from appearing on the Web is rapidly increasing. In a blog post, Buytaert says Mollom reached the 25 million blocked spam messages milestone five months ago, and got to the point where it filtered out 50 million of them only two months ago.
The full scorecard, as publicly posted on the company website:
“Mollom is currently protecting 10,052 active websites. The average efficiency is 99.93%. This means that only 7 in 10,000 spam messages were not caught. Mollom has caught 100,537,961 spam messages since it started. Today we caught 297,061 spam messages. On average, 89% of all messages are spam.”
In reality, the number of filtered junk messages is much higher, since he doesn’t take into account private servers it operates on behalf of larger clients and only counts the ones that get blocked on public servers. About 4 million of comment and post spam messages per month get filtered out of just one social network, the rapidly growing Netlog, with which it struck a deal two months ago. In aggregate, Mollom is processing up to 150 million messages a month, which translates to the company needing to handle over 200 million HTTP requests to analyze them appropriately.
That’s a lot of viagra selling drivel for you.
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I hope this supposed to be ironic? Anti-spam spam..
Anyone know how much spam akismet or recaptcha blocks each day?
According to their site, Akismet has, just today, already blocked 10 million spam comments. Mollom is really tiny compared to them.
http://akismet.com/stats/
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A very big thank you for Mollom
will it block icontact? I have asked them repeatedly to stop sending me emails after making the mistake of signing up for a trial.. put them in my spam.. and yet they always find a way back to my inbox..
I’d like to see the 1 millionth message, make sure it isn’t one of mine.
That’s funny, I think my Yahoo account accepted it’s 100 millionth spam message the other day.
seems like 999,999 have passed my way
Ben from the reCAPTCHA team here. To answer the stats question, we process over 25 million legitimate requests per day. Using the same 89/11 ratio of spam/legit that would be about 200 million spam messages blocked per day.
Anyone know a better way of getting in touch with their support staff other than email on their site? We’re having major issues with spam and I’d love to be working at 99.9% efficiency, but the truth is I’m not.
Any advice would be great!
Bueller? … Bueller?
Seriously? Am I the only one having a problem w/ Mollom’s service?
If you need help with the Drupal module, you can post to http://drupal.o...t/issues/mollom. Otherwise if you send an e-mail through mollom.com which sends it to an interal issue tracking site and we should get back to you.