Since July 2nd, 2003, I have received over 30,000 spam messages. Luckily I use a very good piece of software to filter them - catches well over 90% of them - with 0.00% false positives. That means absolutely no messages that I want to see are misclassified as spam. But still, 30,000 in less than two months is insane (and this doesn't even count the 5,000+ viruses (yes, viruses - please disregard my previous classification of them as virii (virii would be the plural of virius).

Why am I telling you this? Well, basically, something has to be done. An article I read today mentioned that more than 50% of all e-mails are spam. Suffice to say, I have not received 30,000 genuine e-mail messages in the same time period as the spams. Obviously, because I put my e-mail addresses out on the net (I use various e-mail addresses for various sites), I am bound to get a lot of spam, but 30,000 is just insane. It almost makes me want to get a new e-mail address and start from scratch, but I know I'll never do that. I just can't change my e-mail address, just as I can't change my name.

URL: Spam - Wikipedia