Monday, June 12, 2006
(1:03 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Spam
For a while, Anthony had me convinced that I should clear out my spam folder in Gmail once a day, but then I decided that was one neurotic habit too many. It's been a couple months now, and given that the spam folder deletes messages after 30 days, it looks like I get roughly 4500 spam messages a month, or around 150 a day. This doesn't include the 10 or so messages a day that escape the filter.That just strikes me as a lot. I'm not sure why spammers seem to think that rendering everyone's e-mail account unusable would benefit them. Perhaps they figure that people are used to e-mail by now and that if the spam revolution was achieved, people would just switch their usage habits -- instead of keeping up with business associates, they would just click links to find captivating Russian cumshots or cheap Viagra.