one month of spam
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Normally I always empty my spambox, but I wanted to know how much spam I receive so I decided to not delete my spambox for 1 month. The results:
5986 Spam mails (almost 200 a day)
5261 spam mails ended up directly in my spambox
717 spam mails came in my normal mailbox!
In comparison with my normal incoming mail of 1472 emails in the last month (50 a day) I receive 4 times as much spam as normal email. This means that 80% of my incoming mail is spam. Which is close to the 90% spam of all worldwide email traffic.
Wrote on May 13, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
I use SpamSieve which keeps a count of all my spam and good mail. It has been running since 16-1-07. Check it out:
Filtered Mail
6.908 Good Messages
40.059 Spam Messages (85%)
341 Spam Messages Per Day
SpamSieve Accuracy
193 False Positives
96 False Negatives (33%)
99.4% Correct
So 85% of all my mail is spam…