Please Vote -- Average Daily Spam Poll

I am making a presentation on two anti-spam products, MailWasher Pro and BlueFrog.

It would be very helpful for me, if I could get some statistics on the average daily spam level for all of your email accounts combined. Obviously, the more people that participate, then the more reliable the statistics will be.

Thanks in advance. I really appreciate your willingness to participate in this effort.

Just in case anyone is interested, I have also attached a really nifty BlueFrog graphic for your amusement. Feel free to use this graphic. In addition, I have also uploaded another graphic, which you can set up as part of your signature for your email messages.

Cheers,

Linda

I selected <than 10 and I have over 12 accounts, both web and pop based if that makes any difference.

Linda Hewitt--Good topic.
If you had asked a month ago, I would have said around 40. Lately, I get very few (0-5 per day), and I have five email accounts.
I suspect many of these spam had the addresses generated by computer, since one account has never been used or disclosed to anyone. The only other explanation is that my email supplier sold the address.
I use no antispam program, but the email supplier does, and I religiously would report spam to them. I also have a few OE Message Rules, but they catch little.

Fink,

Does this mean that you get a combined total of "only" 10 spam email messages per day for your 12 email accounts.

I have 5 email accounts and I am getting a combined daily total of 125 - 150 spam email messages.

In the last couple of days, my spam daily totals have decreased a little bit but I think that has more to do with the fact that the major spammers are in a war with Blue Security, so there zombie computers are involved in this effort, instead of sending SPAM.

WelshJim,

I have discovered the hard way that these automated anti-spam solutions produce an unacceptable rate of false positives (over 10% of my legitimate email), so I have chosen to opt-out of these automated content filter solutions being run by my ISPs.

I use Mailwasher Pro, http://www.firetrust.com/, to then preview all of my email and blacklist and send spam reports to BlueFrog.

In January 2002, when I started using Mailwasher, I was getting 25 - 30 spam messages per day. Mailwasher succeeded in reducing that daily total to 3 - 4. Since then the spam totals have gradually increased to their current levels.

The only Mailwasher message filter that I use is that I blacklist any email message, which is not addressed to me. Then while the email is still on my ISP's email server, I can quickly review all of my email to determine if the pre-defined status code (friend, blacklist, etc.) is correct. If it is not, then I can change the status code. Blacklisted eand spam email is deleted and reported to BlueFrog BUT it is not downloaded to my computer.

It only takes me a minute or two to preview my email every day.

Cheers,

Linda

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Does this mean that you get a combined total of "only" 10 spam email messages per day for your 12 email accounts

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Yes. I use obscure web based providers, names in my email addresses that are extremely unlikely to be in a spambot data base and don't give my addresses to dubious people or sites.

And the number is closer to 2/day.

My work email gets filtered by mailmarshal but I still get one or two a week that get through.

Home I don't think we've ever got spam, other than virus emails when we are obviously in someones address book and they have a virus that is mass mailing.

Gmail - well I hardly use it, but last time I logged in it was full of spam.

Given I've only ever used my Gmail address on VDr and eBay - I think eBay have a lot to answer for.

Like Fink our home email address is a clever combination of our family member names to make the account name before the @ispname.com.au

I use an extra account for spammy things if I think that some service will spam me to death. On my main account, maybe 2 a day... but they all get filtered.

My company has purchased Spam Bully and I have to say it is an absolutely excellent product. It works with Exchange accounts, that is very important for us. The very first time you start Spam Bully, its Bayesian spam filter will learn from your own personal email habits, identifying good and spam messages. Every time you download your email, Spam Bully will make sure good emails make it to your Inbox. Spam emails are sent to the "Spam" folder. Emails SpamBully may have difficulty classifying, go to a special "Unsure" folder. You can always adjust emails in these folders by using the Spam and Not Spam buttons in the SpamBully toolbar. Tons of features...

Most of mine still come from the same machine at roughly the rate of 2 spam 10 minutes apart every hour of the day. (ie. 10:40, 10:50, 11:40, 11:50... 23:40, 23:50...) it's been like this for 3 months. They are all through a free email account that I use where I have to enter an email for subscription purposes. It's not a big deal other than it sends a gif each time. Eudora filters them well so they all go into my junk mailbox which I systematically empty every day. I also get a dozen or so from other sources daily.
Through my main email account though, I get maybe one a week.