So a week or so ago a site I went to had a brief survey on spam. I forget where I was or why, but I answered the (newbie-ish) questions. One was how much spam do you get in a week. Well, I guessed at it, because lately (read: about the last year) I’ve been just ignoring spam, rather than fight what seems to be a hopeless cause.<\/p>\n
But it got me curious, so I decided to start keeping track. This past week, from 1\/24 to 1\/30 I received 258 unwanted pieces of e-mail advertising mostly scams, snake-oil, and other assorted crap. I was generous – there was a handful of e-mail that I’m fairly sure I didn’t ask for, but I recognized the site it came from. I honestly don’t know if I opted in or out of those, so I didn’t include them.<\/p>\n
Two hundred and fifty eight pieces of spam. That’s 36.9 pieces per day. This includes all of my e-mail addresses, including my hotmail one that is completely spam-infested. I get around 200 emails a day – which means one entire day’s worth of e-mail is spam.<\/p>\n
Bah. Maybe I should jump back into the anti-spam fray. I think at a minimum I’m going to keep a closer eye on my spam and see what patterns are there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So a week or so ago a site I went to had a brief survey on spam. I forget where I was or why, but I answered the (newbie-ish) questions. One was how much spam do you get in a week. Well, I guessed at it, because lately (read: about the last year) I’ve been just ignoring spam, rather than fight what seems to be a hopeless cause. But it got me curious, so I decided to start keeping track. This past week, from 1\/24 to 1\/30 I received 258 unwanted pieces of e-mail advertising mostly scams, snake-oil, and other assorted crap. I was generous – there was a handful of e-mail that I’m fairly sure I didn’t ask for, but I recognized the site it came from. I honestly don’t know if I opted in or out of those, so I didn’t include them. Two hundred and fifty eight pieces of spam. That’s 36.9 pieces per day. This includes all of my e-mail addresses, including my hotmail one that is completely spam-infested. I get around 200 emails a day – which means one entire day’s worth of e-mail is spam. Bah. Maybe I should jump back into the anti-spam fray. I think at a minimum I’m going to keep a closer eye on my spam and see what patterns are there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}