I started keeping spam statistics (yeah, I'm a stats geek) because it felt like 1/3 to 1/2 of my e-mail was spam -- and indeed it was. (Sometimes even more than 1/2.) One day (granted after a vacation) when I arrived I had 529 pieces of spam out of 1085 emails total. (The Outlook filters had found and identified as spam 465 of these, plus 8 items that were not spam.)
Other days it was 184 spam / 305 mail total. 126/224. 28/50. 20/44.
On 3/26 it was 71/180.
Then the next day it was 2/27. What? Does no-one love me any more? 3/25. 3/41. 6/33. After a weekend 19/91, 5/36, 4/32, 2/26, 2/34. Another weekend: 12/82, 3/31, 5/32.
Then today there was ONE item in my spam folder. And it was a false positive. I was beginning to worry until I got a real item of spam just now. They're doing a coffee survey and want to give me $500 in Starbucks drinks.
Of course my yahoo account is really accumulating it. Do you think I should go for 6 extra inches or only 3?
There have been times when I've had one hundred percent spam. Of course, I usually check at least a couple of times a day, so I might have had real mail that same day, but during a different session...
This account is the same one I use for my work-stuff, so I'm in it all day -- I only keep stats from the morning first-time-in view. I can't imagine not getting work-or-personal mail during any significant period of time. (The yahoo account, on the other hand, only really collect LJ & spam, so that one can be all spam for several days running.)
I've almost given up looking through my spam. If something gets flagged as a false positive I'm likely never to see it. This is why I try to whitelist my friends.
Oh, and definitely go for the extra inches. For whatever reason I seem to get the breast enlargement spam while Beth gets the "make your #$%% 6" longer!" spam. But it doesn't matter; with all the drugs they want us to buy we'll be so high we wouldn't have time for that sort of thing anyway.
I do sometimes feel bad for not going through my spam. I'll skim a few hundred pieces and then give up when I realize I have over 5000 pieces to plow through.
Oh, and definitely go for the extra inches. For whatever reason I seem to get the breast enlargement spam while Beth gets the "make your #$%% 6" longer!" spam. But it doesn't matter; with all the drugs they want us to buy we'll be so high we wouldn't have time for that sort of thing anyway.
I'm wondering if they're cumulative. Can I get the 6" and the 3" and have a full 9" extra. And what about what I get in tomorrow's mail?
Go for the whole package and surprise Clark. ;)