Spam count
I normally empty out my gmail spam box fairly regularly, just so that I’ve got half a chance of of finding non-spam in there and rescuing it. I almost never find non-spam in there, though, and I’ve neglected this process for a while now. For 10 days to be precise. And there are currently 1373 messages in my spam box. That’s 137 per day. There are about 550 genuine messages in the same time frame (55 per day). That’s 2.5 spam messages for each genuine message. I knew I got quite a lot of spam, but I would have guessed at 1 to 1, rather than 2.5 to 1.
Scary.
Is anybody ever going to come up with a workable solution to this problem? Just think of the wasted bandwith, storage, recipient’s time, investment in anti-spam software, etc., not to mention the poor people taken in by some of this rubbish who then lose out in some way (usually financially).
Steve Rumsby
17 Dec 2006 19:03
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Lee Davis
Only 2.5 spam to real messages sounds quite low to me, I get more than that get through my spam filters. Looking at this weeks stats 55% of mail gets rejected at the smtp negotiation stage. Of what gets through that I reckon 70% is spam, 10% of which gets delivered to my main mailbox. It’s generally worse at weekends when spam probably accounts for 95% of all attempted messages.
18 Dec 2006, 00:19
Steve Rumsby
My ratio is probably a little higher than 2.5:1, because I’m including both work and personal emails in the above numbers, but some spam to my work address is filtered out before it hits my inbox. I’ve no idea how much of that there is because I don’t see it!
18 Dec 2006, 10:37
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