Now, I’ve always gotten my fair share of emails, but recently it has started getting of hand. A quick analysis of my logfiles shows that I had received a total of 115,799 emails between 27th of January and 22nd of October. Out of this 49,195 emails were marked as ham, while 66,604 got marked as spam, leaving a spam percentage of 58 percent.

What is more scary though is the development

Thankfully my spamfilter does a good job classifying spam messages, and my email filters a nice job of categorizing the incoming emails so that the information in them can make any kind of sense. Many are, thankfully, related to domain registrations through http://www.passive12.net , new client signups, reseller signups, pending orders, renewal notices, et cetera.

On top of that is a couple of mailing lists, GnuPG ( http://www.secure-my-email.com ) being one of them, SANE being another ( http://www.scanners-on-linux.com ).

After the introduction of RSS I’ve thankfully moved most news sites over to it, they used to account for the majority of emails before.

Due to a mistake on my behalf I don’t have statistics from the 22nd of october untill today, and I hadn’t noticed as I haven’t checked the stats before now, but at least I jump-started it again, so I’ll have more charts forwards.

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