Unbelievable…just noticed, that the anti-spam plugin of my blog (Akismet) filtered 25,002 spam comments in the last 2 years. That are more than 34 spam comments per day.
After that number got my attention, I checked my mail account. After the switch around a month ago from my own mail server to Google Apps for you Domain, which now lets me use Google’s Gmail infrastructure for my primary mail adress (first name (at) this domain), I received over 5000 spam mails. Fortunately, only 3 spam messages were not recognized by Gmail’s spam filter and I had no false-positives. (Which is very impressive)
On my own mailserver, I had collected spam mails for some time to train the spam filter software. Around 10,000 spam mails had the size of 65 megabytes. That means, that getting right now 5000 spam mails per month (approximately), I get currently around 60,000 spam mails per year which have a total size of 400 megabytes.
If you are interested in the topic spam, Wikipedia has a good article as a starting point.
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