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[plonq]

When I came in to work this morning my inbox had 400+ unread items (along with about 1000 read items).  Now it has 3 items.  Next I need to tackle the disaster that is my inbox at home.

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[farlo.livejournal.com]

If you use an e-mail utility that downloads the headers only, you can really take a lightsaber to that inbox!

I get easily 10-15 spams per day, but it is usually from the same general domains or with the same errors (localhost, misconfigured sender, etc). A few simple filters, and it's easy to par the list down. A whitelist lets me save e-mail from friends.

[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

10-15 spams per day?
Bah. Nothing! I get well over 100 :(

[farlo.livejournal.com]

Dude. Most spams come from easily filtereable sources. Blueyonder, for example, just got pwned by spews for being clueless dickheads.

That's my new word of the day, btw. pwned.

You do not need to expend hardly any effort to shut down most spam. It's usually misconfigured, or from untrusted sources, or from a domain beginning in 8*, 2** or 6*.

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

I get an average of 700 emails a day, of which 400 are spam, on my home account (I don't let my filter delete it, I just tag it to a special folder).

Work's not as bad, since only 15-20 get through the filter (which gives statistics saying that 83% of the email received is spam). Not *too* bad, until you realise I only get 1 or 2 legit emails. Signal-to-noise ratio is crap :)

[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

wow. I guess I shouldn't complain about 100+ :(

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

Apparently Bill Gates has an entire department dedicated to getting rid of the spam on his email address :)

I'm going to guess Pope Palpatine...er...Benedict will have a similar problem, now that he has a direct email address :)

[plonq.livejournal.com]

I only get about 1 spam a month on my work account. At home I can tell the spam because it comes in on my Yahoo account.

I get about 20 spams per day at home, almost all of them on my Hotmail or Yahoo accounts. I get one or two a month on my regular account, and none (yet) on either of my Gmail accounts.

Life is good.

[anthony-lion.livejournal.com]

Were those SPAM or just ignored work requests?
(I seem to remember stories you used to write...)

My current inbox at the office contains 2500 messages, none of which are spam...
(I do get about 60 - 100 a day, though. But I have defined a few filters in Outlook to shuffle them off to another folder for later guffaws)

At home I get one or two spams a day. Or rather, that's what get past my spamfilter(www.spamache.com It costs a few $$$ but it really cleans out. And as it doesn't use SpamCop's blacklist, very few legitimate mails gets lost)

[plonq.livejournal.com]

A little of each. I don't really cound system reports as SPAM, but I treat them as such for the most part. And there are some work requests that are... better off ignored.

I didn't actually delete that much mail, rather I moved most of it to a .pst file hidden away on my share drive. I'm only supposed to have 100mb of space on that drive, but my .pst file already takes up 675mb of that. I'm still waiting for somebody to notice.

[anthony-lion.livejournal.com]

That's about the same I have on my Share...

Oh, and System reports ARE spam. They are at least unwanted...
(Can't call them commercial, as I work in a government department)

Nobody tells me how much I can keep on my share, though.
(I'm a BOFH, I can do whatever I want)

At home, though...
I only use my PDA to read email, so I only have about 150MB archived away... (In biiiig .zip files) It should have been more, but there was this one accident which resulted in me losing almost a year's worth of mails. (I'm better at backing up now)