Gmail spam handling update - rather than completely nuking my old stewart@sylloge.com address, I've been forwarding it to an unused Gmail account to help train up their spam filters (still, by the way, delete that address from your address books since I'll never get it, and use a similar address with 'ludicorp' in place of 'sylloge').
When I first tried a similar test of Gmail, it caught about 20% of the spam. Now it's doing a lot better:
- 93,983 in the spam folder
- 5,394 in the inbox (there may be a couple of real emails in there, but I'll never find them - let's say 5,350 of those are spam)
- 99,377 messages total (99.96% spam, approximately)
- 94.6% correctly identified as spam
Also interesting: the oldest message in there is from 8:41am on July 12. That means I'm looking at 16.25 days worth of message. I'm using 365MB of the 1GB limit. That address receives:
- 22.46MB of spam per day
- 6115.5 spam messages per day on average, or;
- Average message size of 3.5KB
- At this rate, I'll run out of space at around 8pm PST on August 25th. That means:
- My 1GB of space on Gmail will have lasted 44.5 days.
Again, don't bother sending mail to that address ;)
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