Spam to real mail ratio... how to you measure up?

defy_gravity · Post by **defy_gravity** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:16 pm

So far today, 145 spam to 2 real mail messages.

CSL · Post by **CSL** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:31 pm

So far on my gmail

618 real e-mail
2 spam (If I count the XFire Newsletter as spam, GMail does)

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:32 pm

I average somewhere around 100:1.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:33 pm

After the weekend:
Junk box 846 SPAM
Real EMail box but SPAM that got thorugh 13
Real Email 0

Today
Junk Box 146 SPAM
Real Email box but SPAm that got through 4
Real Email 5

EngineNo9 · Post by **EngineNo9** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:34 pm

With my real email account? 0 spam. I manage that by never using that address online to sign up for lists or memberships and stuff.

I have a hotmail account that gets about 1:4 spam to real ratio (although it filters a LOT that I never even see).

Zaxxon · Post by **Zaxxon** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:38 pm

I'm around 50-100 spam for every real mail message. Opera's mail filter takes care of most of it for me.

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:39 pm

What EngineNo9 said, only substitute AOL for hotmail.

gbasden · Post by **gbasden** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:13 pm

Yep. Real mail account gets no spam. However, that might be due to me running my own Exchange server with my own enterprise level anti-spam gateway.

It's good to be the mail admin.

Grundbegriff · Post by **Grundbegriff** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:17 pm

Since I began running Popfile on 29 June, I've received 22966 messages. Of those, 54.94% were spam. Thanks to Popfile, 99.47% of the spam was filtered automatically into my Trash box.

knob · Post by **knob** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:43 pm

I don't have an actual ratio since I empty out my spam box often, but I do get quite a bit with my gmail account, just because I've signed up for a lot of stupid things.

But I think of all of the spam I've gotten, only one or two have gotten into my inbox.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:48 pm

on my @gonegold.com account the spam:non-spam ratio was about 40:1 but in about fve months using Gmail I've had only one spam message and four or five eBay hoaxes

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:10 pm

It's about 1:2 on my Wargamer account, negligable on my ISP account, and none at all on my 1&1 account. Both my ISP and The Wargamer use server-side spam filters to block out much of it, though. When the filters go down, I can get hammered (although my own spam filters redirect much of those. Today, for instance, I had about 30 real messages and 5 spam when I got home from work.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:19 pm

I am about 20 to 1. Lately the only spam I get is for a bigger penis. I am starting to wonder if someone is trying to tell me something.

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:22 am

I seem to be getting 50 spam for each real email. then again I don't seem to use email alot except at the office, which doesn't count.