What does two years of spam look like?
Today is a very special day. Midnight this morning marked the end of two years worth of spam counting!
That's right - on October 16, 2003 I decided to keep track of how much spam I was getting every day.
As of today, it's finally too much. My average per day for this month has shot up into the 70s, so I'm going to turn on SpamAssassin and white-list everyone in my address book.
Statistics
Total spam emails: 16,751
Average spam emails per day: 22.88387978
High: 92
Low: 6
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3 Comments:
I've only been tracking spam since April 10th of this year, but I get an average of about 76 spams a day over that period. I've been forced into using a spamfilter + whitelist for a couple of years now. It was about three summers ago that my spam rate when from about 5 a week to over 100 a day.
It has actually been going down slowly over time. If I look at 30-day averages, it was a little over 80/day in May and June, and has dropped to about 68/day over the last month. (But I got 78 yesterday and 85 the day before.)
10:51 PM
Well I have been using SpamBayes for a little while now, since version 0.7, and it has actually made my mail box manageable.
It should be noted that at work since I am part of a lot of global groups I get a supid^2 amount of spam a day. Currently I have 26466 for this year. I don't even want to know what I got last year.
However my personal e-mail account has stayed sane for quite some time although it looks like someone got the address a couple of months ago. I haven't done any plotting yet but it is bad. On the good side Look screwed up my account so my accounts have disappeared for a little while. Ah the on going saga with Look.
8:36 AM
i'd be interested to have a look at the effect the trials/busting of various spamers had on your spam volume and what was going on during the spikes.
3:18 PM
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