Spam update
Follow-up to Spam count from Steve's blog
I’m still leaving my gmail spambox to empty itself, which it does by deleting stuff more than 30 days old. At the moment messages in there go back to Jan 26th, 32 days ago, and there are 5036 of them in total, for an average of 157 per day. That’s 20/day more than a couple of months ago. Is this a general trend, or is it just me?
Steve Rumsby
27 Feb 2007 12:12
| 
Tags: Spam
| 
Comments (5)
| 
Trackbacks (2)
| 
Report a problem
Loading…
I emptied mine at 10am when I got to the grid. When I checked my email again at 11, there were 7 new spam emails. I’m fairly sure I’m getting a lot more!
27 Feb 2007, 12:19
Allan Smith
I’d say I get roughly 30 a day, give or take.
27 Feb 2007, 13:27
28 were filtered out by gmail on the email addresses @coventrycyclist.org.uk & @cycle.org.uk yesterday.
It takes an ISP, gmail or something like that to filter the torrent of spam out there.
I get a couple a week through warwick.ac.uk, perhaps only one or two a month through virgin.net.
28 Feb 2007, 10:15
I wonder whether all this spam might kill off email. Now and again a legitimate email will be falsely treated as spam. Not to mention the cost of carrying all that stuff.
28 Feb 2007, 10:24
Steve Rumsby
Will spam kill off email? I don’t think so. I think we will eventually find a solution, but it will be a while yet. It isn’t an easy problem to solve. Ironically, I suspect that spam filters are pushing that solution further away by working too well and making a solution seem less urgent than it really is! Very few spam messages actually reach my inbox – less than one per day on average, I think.
28 Feb 2007, 10:33
Add a comment
You are not allowed to comment on this entry as it has restricted commenting permissions.