This may go nowhere, but it seems like a fun idea right now, so why not. I emptied my spam box today, roughly a week after the last time I emptied it (can’t remember whether the last one was Thursday or Friday, I’m guessing Friday for the title to be on the safe side). I figured it might be interesting to regularly post scores for the amount of spam I receive in this box.
First a little about the setup. I get very little spam in my actual inbox thanks to filtering. My ISP has filters that dump everything from blacklisted IPs entirely, and kick everything other filters (text and header clues mainly) consider spam to a special spam box. I still check this regularly just in case, though in the years that I’ve been using it I’ve had mail I wanted to see sent to my spambox only once.
Anyway, this little sample of non-blacklist spam is what I checked today and here, for the first time ever, are the scores:
Number of emails: 50
Number of penis size increases offered: 16
Penis size increases offered (cumulative): 1 meter (40 inches)
Number of pharmacies: 12
Number of cheap/illegal software copies offered: 6
Number of Chinese/Japanese offers not translated: 5
Number of stocks recommended to buy: 4
Number of sex sites: 4
Number of “Rolex” (or similar brand) watches offered cheap: 3
March 30th, 2008 at 12:48
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