How Much SPAM do you receive these days?
Written by Ken Edwards
Published February 21, 2004
Published February 21, 2004
SPAM is getting worse and worse. The Canned Spam law is not working, or if it is, I am not seeing its benefit. So tell me (vote in my poll) what percentage of your email is spam.
My POPFile statistics say 85.60% of my mail is SPAM. The filter is 99.13% accurate at distinguishing that SPAM. I have not had to worry about a false positive in months, I just have to classify emails that POPFile is unsure of (it leaves them as unclassified, which means it doesn't count in the classification error tally).
Ken Edwards is the Gaming Editor at Blogcritics, and calls Breaking Windows home. Ken works part time for Student Publications at BGSU as the Webmaster and System Administrator. He is also a freelance web developer.
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I'm on a lot of high traffic mailing lists, so mailing list traffic accounts for a high proportion my mail. My vote (81%-90%) covers mails outside those mailing lists.
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Ken - not sure if you saw, but I answered this here yesterday