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How often do you get spammed?

6 December 2007 - 11:43am — Bevan

I get spammed approximately every 103 seconds. Really. Here are my numbers and calculations; http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTpwkDap5YFcnDJ5RRAlIRw

The mailboxes collectively include several catch-all's and many webmaster@ postmaster@ and abuse@ email addresses. I used to publish my email addresses online fairly liberally. Some of the email addresses are several years old and are probably on every single spam-mailing-list.

How many spam emails do you get?

UPDATE: See the follow-up at http://drupal.geek.nz/node/69

Comments

4 April 2008 - 11:42pm — eq2 plat (not verified)

We get spammed to the degree

We get spammed to the degree that our paid e-mail service had to upgraded due to the number of comment alerts we were getting. Thus why we went to GMail :)

8 December 2007 - 2:40am — Barry Jaspan (not verified)

120 seconds

In the last 30 days, I have received 21,588 email messages and 92.95% of them were spam. That's one spam message every 120 seconds. My spam blocking software made 10 errors for an overall accuracy of 99.95%. 60% were false negatives and 40% were false positives. "40% false positives" may sound scary but understand that means 4 false positives out of 21,588 messages. The messages all got a very low spam score and since I scan my blocked messages sorted by spam score they were at the top of the list and easy to spot.

Since January 27, 2005, I have received 533,507 email messages and 88.04% of them were spam. That's one spam message every 192 seconds. 648 errors for overall accuracy of 99.88%, 60.19% false negatives, 39.81% false positives. Those 648 errors include the initial training period but the stats make it appear that the effect of those initial errors are now in the noise.

7 December 2007 - 2:37pm — Michelle (not verified)

Hardly any

I guess Charter must be good at filtering them. I've had this email since 1999 and have never really hid it, including using it on usenet for years. I get maybe 10 a day on a bad day. Some not at all. And I have several domains catch-all'd to this email.

Michelle

7 December 2007 - 3:31am — Wim Leers (not verified)

Rarely?

I only get spam once every couple of days... seems to me you should use either a proper anti-spam application, or use a good free mailbox (I use gmail for everything, but never use the web interface). If you don't know that yet, there's a free Google Apps for your Domain thing. I use it form my @wimleers.com e-mail adresses.

13 December 2007 - 10:12am — Bevan

I do this for all of my

I do this for all of my domains. I got the numbers from the size of my spam box.

6 December 2007 - 10:59pm — NicolasH (not verified)

Gmail

In Gmail I get a stray spam mail maybe once a month and I use this address exclusively for all my subscriptions (although only for services that look pretty trustworthy and are depending on the goodwill of their users).

I'm amazed at some of the numbers other people are telling me about! How did they do that?? What am I doing wrong, well..., right...

Having said that, I get a fairly decent number of spam mails on my work account, which I solely use internally and have never, ever subscribed to anything with. And it's that weird stuff that doesn't even try to sell you anything anywhere...it's only the dadaistic gibberish left. My theory is that the source are zombie machines that lost connection to the mother node, not receiving any sales stuff anymore...

And hey, if I get more than one a month now, I know where to look...;)

6 December 2007 - 10:23pm — bertboerland (not verified)

a bit more

Raw counting learned I get 250 spam per minute. That is correct, more then 1 spam (or bounced mail due to someone spamming with my domain as sender) per second!

Note that my domain is older then google and I used it always on usenet.

Thank god for hosted gmail :-)

19 April 2008 - 6:42am — Anti Spam (not verified)

Wow

Wow, this is an amazing figure. You must oodles of traffic!