On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:52:41 +0000, spike1 wrote:
> Kier <vallon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:48:35 +0000, spike1 wrote:
>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>>>> Spam Facts 101
>>>
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>>>> | (3)2005 (June) 30 billion Spams/day.
>>>> | (4)2006 (June) 55 billion Spams/day.
>>>> | (5)In 2006, 40 per cent of all email was spam.
>>>
>>> For me, 99.99% of e-mail has been spam for months. At least.
>>>
>>>> | (6)Daily Spam emails sent 12.4 billion.
>>>> | (i)Daily Spam received per person: 6.
>>>
>>> 6000 would be more like it.
>
>> Really? Personally I get maybe three or four hundred, over a period of
>> maybe a couple of weeks (this is per account, so double that). I don't
>> check those two accounts all that often, so it can sometimes accumulate a
>> little more. If you're getting 6000 a *day*, maybe you should stop puting
>> you address about so much :-)
>
> 2 accounts are spam swamped.
> 1, the one I have advertised here, I gave up on a couple of years ago, I
> just use a small perl script to delete the contents once in a while.
Yeah, I don't use this address for anything but Usenet and an old mailing
list nowadays. It still seems to get less than the one I used previously,
though. I check it once in a while, and get rid of the junk.
>
> The other has a web interface I've tweaked to dump most of the badly
> offending crap based on the most common keywords into the "trash folder"
> 6000 might've been a slight exageration, but before I setup the spam filter
> on the web interface, it did reach a thousand (which seemed to be the limit)
> more than twice a day.
Wow! I've had mine get up to that over a longish period (weeks). Never
days. Spammers are crapheads.
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Kier
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