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Spam experiment update: I last emptied my Bulk mail folder at 9:25am on Monday March 26. Now, at 9:51am on Friday March 30, there are 643 messages in the spam folder. That's a little over 96 hours, or four days, averaging out to 160 spam messages per day, and just under 7 spam messages per hour.
From the midpoint check-in post, we see that almost 400 messages were received in the first 50 hours of the experiment (my time math was so wrong in that post--I was missing an entire day!--and none of you called me on it, but the amount of spam received by that point was accurate). So, I received 400 messages in the first 50 hours, or 2.5 days. Our average of 160 messages per day multiplied by 2.5 is in fact 400, so that's right on target.
(Now, for science's sake, I should note that the figures above are not exact, not based on exact timing, and do involve some rounding, and they do not include the spam that showed up in my inbox or any spam that was caught by my personal filters and immediately sent to the trash (I have personal filters for any message with "penis" or "rolex" in the subject line, since a good bit of the spam I receive is about one of those things).)
Conclusion: 7 messages per hour? 160 messages per day? Spammers are assholes! God, leave me alone!
Further conclusions: Are people actually buying Rolexes as a result of reading spam? Are people signing up for mortgages and home equity loans and Penis Mightiers because of spam, or attempting to meet the hot local singles advertised thusly? Or giving out their bank account numbers to Professor Umbe Ugawagabe of Nigeria who just needs to transfer some funds out of his war-torn country? Who is that gullible?!? Really. Those gullible people are doing the rest of us a disservice, because spammers WOULDN'T SEND THIS CRAP IF SOMEBODY WASN'T OUT THERE BEING STUPID. Spammers AND their prey should all be goddamn deported.
I think that may be the most Dann-Brownish thing I have ever said. Huh. Don't stop, keep doing the laundry.
From the midpoint check-in post, we see that almost 400 messages were received in the first 50 hours of the experiment (my time math was so wrong in that post--I was missing an entire day!--and none of you called me on it, but the amount of spam received by that point was accurate). So, I received 400 messages in the first 50 hours, or 2.5 days. Our average of 160 messages per day multiplied by 2.5 is in fact 400, so that's right on target.
(Now, for science's sake, I should note that the figures above are not exact, not based on exact timing, and do involve some rounding, and they do not include the spam that showed up in my inbox or any spam that was caught by my personal filters and immediately sent to the trash (I have personal filters for any message with "penis" or "rolex" in the subject line, since a good bit of the spam I receive is about one of those things).)
Conclusion: 7 messages per hour? 160 messages per day? Spammers are assholes! God, leave me alone!
Further conclusions: Are people actually buying Rolexes as a result of reading spam? Are people signing up for mortgages and home equity loans and Penis Mightiers because of spam, or attempting to meet the hot local singles advertised thusly? Or giving out their bank account numbers to Professor Umbe Ugawagabe of Nigeria who just needs to transfer some funds out of his war-torn country? Who is that gullible?!? Really. Those gullible people are doing the rest of us a disservice, because spammers WOULDN'T SEND THIS CRAP IF SOMEBODY WASN'T OUT THERE BEING STUPID. Spammers AND their prey should all be goddamn deported.
I think that may be the most Dann-Brownish thing I have ever said. Huh. Don't stop, keep doing the laundry.
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