Mail checkpoint

[cjsmith]

I've cleared out the spam-backlog in my personal mail account and have responded to everything I found that seemed to want a response. If I didn't reply it's because the mail is gone -- please send again or comment here.

(Even with aggressive filters I get about ten pieces of spam to every piece of mail I need to read, and about 90 pieces of spam to every one I need to reply to. My 'd' key gets awfully quick right after I come home from a trip.)

Wow, it feels good to have THAT done.

Comments

[platypus]

I've had my email address for over ten years. It's been put on web pages, used on Usenet, and otherwise jumped up and down and begged the world to spam it. My ISP has a really good spam filter, though, and that catches 90+% of it. I just checked my spam trap (online) and there are 232 messages in it from the past week (I guess I set it to empty weekly -- I've never had a false positive so I'm pretty cavalier about it). Beyond that, I have Mac Mail trained to put spam in a folder, and though it sometimes has false positives, they're almost always ads (just ads I'm willing to get). There are only 50 messages in there and I haven't cleared it out in two months. So that's really not a bad level of spam, considering how accessible my address is.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You get 232 caught by the filter in one week, or you get 232 that made it through? Either way I'm stunned at the low number! :)

[platypus]

The 232 messages were the ones caught by the ISP's filter. In that same week, three made it through. Not bad at all, really, since I've never seen a false positive at the ISP's level.