Some Spam for Thought
Looking back over my Junk Folder I have accumulated over 22,000 pieces of spam over the past six weeks. That averages out to one spam email every three minutes every day of the year, or over 175,000 spams per year.
This fact is evident when coming back from a trip or vacation where I haven't checked my email in several days. I start Outlook and see it has ~1,600 email messages to download, which of course takes a good stretch of time. I leave the computer and do other things, letting the spam move from my ISP's server to my computer. Then, maybe 30 minutes later, I go back to my computer and, from that 1,600 deluge, there are maybe 100 for me, maybe three or four of which are from someone that I know/met/talked to. (Most non-spam emails I get are from people who've read my books and/or articles and have questions either about the book/article or some other general ASP/ASP.NET question.)
Fortunately, those ~1,500 spams don't clog up my Inbox. SpamBayes correctly flags and deletes over 99% of the crapola that is sent to me.