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June 15, 2008
It would be nice if Gmail could tell me itself…
Follow-up to I have more spam than emails… from The randomness of tomorrow, today!
I don't use Thunderbird; I just use the Gmail web interface. However I'd previously installed Thunderbird just to have a look.
So, using IMAP, I have established that my (currently) 20,333 conversations contain 27,620 emails... which is still less than the spam I get.
The spam comes in at 75,926 for the past 30 days. So I currently have 2.7 spam for every real email...
June 13, 2008
I have more spam than emails…
Between 2:57pm on 13th October 2004 and 2:37pm on 13th June 2008 I had received 20,298 email conversations* in Gmail:
Between 1:00am on 14th May 2008 and 3:28pm on 13th June 2008 I had received 68,217 spam conversations* in Gmail:
If I've done the maths correctly (I rounded to the number of days), then that's 1 email conversation* every 1 hour, 38 minutes, and 28 seconds and 1 spam conversation* every 38 seconds.
I'm sure there will be many people that get much more spam that I do, but it's still a lot of spam...
(Coincidentally, since I took the screenshot the spam has risen to 68,303)
UPDATE: Another quick calculation: taking the number of spam over the past 30 days, and extrapolating it over the past 4 years gives about 3 million spam...
UPDATE: The number of spam I get has increased somewhat this year, and I've just found documented evidence that I used to get less spam. I'd forgotten about that one...
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* In case you didn't know, Gmail groups related emails into conversations. The numbers in the screenshots are the numbers of conversations; the actual number of emails will be much higher, but isn't nearly as easy to find...
August 15, 2005
Education is a wonderful thing…
Follow-up to It's not spam, dammit! from The randomness of tomorrow, today!
Gmail appears to have learned; the comment emails seem to be getting through.