All 4 entries tagged Gmail

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...

: 15 Jun 2008 00:35 |  Tags: Count Gmail Imap Randomness Spam Thunderbird |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

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...

: 13 Jun 2008 16:08 |  Tags: Gmail Randomness Screenshot Spam |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

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.

: 15 Aug 2005 22:02 |  Tags: BlogBuilder Comment Emails Gmail Randomness Spam Filter |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

It's not spam, dammit!

I don't like the new style of comment–alert emails; they have the from as the commenter. The old ones were marked as from me and to me, which was fine, but the new ones are getting picked up as spam by Gmail. I'm sure it'll learn eventually, but for now it's just annoying.

: 13 Aug 2005 01:21 |  Tags: BlogBuilder Comment Emails Gmail Randomness Spam Filter |  Comments (5) |  Close comments |  Report a problem