Spam count

I was curious to find out exactly how much spam I get in a year. So, thanks to Eudora and MIT's IMAP mail servers, I actually managed to keep track of the number of total messages I received, and the relative amount of spam.

So, in the last year, I received 13848 messages, out of which approximately 10445 were not spam. Of course, this means that about 3400 messages, or one in every four I received, was true, unsolicited commercial e-mail (aka, spam). Not as bad as many people, but still, it's a lot.

We'll see what 2004 holds. If it's anything like the last few weeks, though, the prognosis is not good.