What Percent Of Your Email Is SPAM? - Democratic Underground

arwalden

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Mon Apr-25-05 03:42 PM
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Poll question: What Percent Of Your Email Is SPAM?

Do you use a spam filter of some sort, or do you just weed through and find the important stuff by hand?

My mail client is Eudora and it's got a "trainable" spam filter. Whenever junk mail makes it through to your in-box, you can flag the message as being SPAM and its characteristics are added to its database. Conversely, if something gets flagged as spam, then you can train the program to recognize mail you want to receive as well.

At first it was sort of hit-n-miss... but as time goes on the program has gotten more accurate about spotting real spam. Still not perfect, but better than doing it by hand.

Of all the email that I receive, about 70% is SPAM.

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kedrys

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Mon Apr-25-05 03:48 PM
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Mine's more spammy than a Monty Python sketch :D n/t

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Nite Owl

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Mon Apr-25-05 03:48 PM
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1. I get very little spam

but the Norton filter gets most of it and it was rather easy to 'train'. The gmail I have isn't in outlook and it's almost all spam.

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Squatch

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Mon Apr-25-05 03:49 PM
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2. One or two slip through now and again, but, otherwise very little.

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JAbuchan08

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Mon Apr-25-05 03:56 PM
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3. 100% - not really, it just seems that way.

n/t

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salib

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Mon Apr-25-05 03:58 PM
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4. Need a tenth of a cent charge per e-mail sent

That would kill spam, or a least bring it down to a dull roar.

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catmandu57

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Mon Apr-25-05 04:04 PM
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5. They haven't found me yet

I changed over to dsl a year ago and I'm very careful now about who gets my e address.

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iconoclastic cat

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Mon Apr-25-05 04:12 PM
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6. Actually, I get so much spam that some of it becomes useful again.

Edited on Mon Apr-25-05 04:15 PM by iconoclastic cat

Sort of a quantum-gravity, faster-than-light thing I have going.

Here's a diargram:

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miss_kitty

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Mon Apr-25-05 04:22 PM
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7. How about 0%?

I don't get any. Since I dumped AOHELL. :)

My client? Thunderbird. And I haven't told it to do shit. although if I had to, the filtering shit is there somewhere.

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sundog

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Mon Apr-25-05 04:29 PM
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8. none -it was like 95% (75+ a day), but I got a new isp and now I have none

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