R.A.W.: E-mail spam on the rise?

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E-mail spam on the rise? · 12. August 2006, 22:32

Recently I have noticed a very large increase in e-mail spam on all public e-mail address that I use regularly. In particular on my gmail address I do not ever delete spam, I simply mark it as read and leave it in the spam folder. Gmail will delete all messages older than 30 days in this folder. This means I can track a moving average of spam messages in my gmail account. The number of messages in this folder quickly plateau’ed at about 100 and remained there for about a year. In the last couple of months however, this number has rapidly increased to its current value of 261. I am starting to track this number in an excel workbook and hopefully I can find a simple means of plotting the number on robwall.com

As an aside, gmail has in my opinion a very good spam detection engine – I seldom get any false negatives although I have gotten a few false positives which is the only thing stopping me saying that it is an excellent engine or the best engine.

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