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).
How Much SPAM do you receive these days?
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Comments (2)
I would say 5% and that is being generous. If it wern't for the domain and the ability to throw away e-mail addresses, it would be much higher. Like 85-90%.
As much as I dislike Microsoft for alot of things, Outlook 2003 is pretty darn good at weeding out spam. I turned off a couple of my forwards once to see, and found that it handled about 95% of the spam that came it. Which was about 200-250 messages a week. That's not as good as your POPfile, but considering I wasn't running any 3rd party filter, it's pretty impressive.
At this point, the only spam that comes through is to webmaster at my domains dot com. I have a couple of domains at this point and don't like the idea of forwarding those to the bit bucket.
Now... If you were to ask about mail I get at work... That's a totally different story. I started working at a new job last December. The minute I turned on my comuter there I had 10 spam messages addressed to me! One or two actually had my full name in it! The only thing I can figure is that their list of e-mail addresses and names for Microsoft Exchange Server must be accessable to the public somehow and a spambot got ahold of the list.
I get about 30-40 spams a day at work, and that is after SpamAssassin does it's work on the messages comming into the servers there. Up until yesterday, I wasn't able to run Outlook 2003 at the office. I had Windows NT 4.0 running there... Don't ask! :( However, thanks to a small mistake on my part. (Deleting a file on the root folder of C:) I have now installed Windows 2000 on my work machine. I should be able to install and run Outlook 2003 now. I'll have to see if it will install later. If so, I'll be buying a license for that so I can have a decent mail client that supports MS Exchange Server and still do a better job of filtering spam.
Sorry for the length, but Spam is just one of my biggest pet peeves! Unsolisited phone calls are at the top, then Spam... :)
Posted by Dave | February 21, 2004 12:29 PM
Posted on February 21, 2004 12:29
Heya Dave,
np with the length! Its always nice to see comments from people and not SPAM bots :-P.
SPAM is everywhere, email, phone, cell phone, door to door. You know I just had an Avon lady knock on my door, at like 9 AM on a Saturday! I thought they stopped doing that crap.
I agree about Outlook 2003's filtering. They did good putting bayesian filtering in it. I hope it makes it into Entourage 2004.
I just wish Apple's Mail did as good, then I would not have to run POPFile.
Posted by Ken Edwards | February 21, 2004 9:41 PM
Posted on February 21, 2004 21:41