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Spam, Wonderful Spam

Posted by: Ben Galbraith on 11/15/2006

I’ve been using the excellent SpamSieve plug-in for OS X Mail for the past month and a half. It works really, really well; so well, in fact, that I don’t notice just how much spam I get. So I was a bit surprised to scroll past the ol’ spam folder and see:

44,574 spams

Didn’t I just empty that sucker? I checked out SpamSieve’s stats and saw (covering 9/26/06 until now):

60,315 spams in a month and a half

I am amazed at the volume of junk email — 1,200 spams per day! I have no idea how my parents cope (actually, since I serve as their tech support engineer, I know exactly how badly they’re coping with this stuff). I hope Google || Yahoo || Microsoft || some start-up does something about this soon. If large amounts of this crap starts defeating SpamSieve, I’m screwed.

(BTW, the ratio of good:spam email in the SpamSieve is meaningless in my setup; a lot of my email bypasses SpamSieve entirely if certain criteria are met.)

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About Ben Galbraith

Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several Java-related books. He is a co-founder of Ajaxian.com, an experienced CTO and Java Architect, and is presently a consultant specializing in Java Swing and Ajax development. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. For the past few years, he’s been professionally coding in Java. Ben has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide at venues including JavaOne, The Ajax Experience, JavaPolis, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium series; he was the top-rated speaker at JavaOne 2006.

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