2006/04/13

Richter scale on email volume


SenderBase Network sets up a global email traffic monitoring network. In quantifying email volume, the Richter scale used to measure earthquakes is applied to message volume calculated using a log scale with a base of 10. The maximum theoretical value of the scale is set to 10, which equates to 100% of the world's email message volume (approximately 10 billion messages/day).

By checking the IP address of our company's outgoing mail server, our Richter magnitude is 1.9. This can be translated to 7900 outbound email messages per day. Hey....., this is a rather interesting concept.

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