Ooookay. So, for fun, I've been archiving spam. Unfortunately, I haven't been fighting it. I'm mostly apathetic about it, which means I'm part of the problem. It just seems so futile from here, and it's only going to get worse. Anyway, on to the numbers. I like numbers.<\/p>\n
I have 8 email addresses, plus I monitor the Roadrunner master account, which is unused. Two are personal email addresses – my personal domain address, and my personal isp address. Three are hotmail – one I use for web crap, a very old one that has been used on Usenet, and one I made for reasons I cannot recall just now. Two more are the webmaster accounts for my .net and .com domain, and the last one is one I used exclusively for Usenet. That last one I've retired and am now using a new one with munging. I used to be opposed to munging on Usenet; now I believe it's crucial.<\/p>\n
I, personally, received 20,007 plus spam emails in 2003. There was actually more – I had a couple of months of spotty archiving. These emails take up 140 MB of disk space.<\/p>\n
Fully 65.25% came to my hotmail addresses; the one used on Usenet is 5 years old and gets 49% of all spam.<\/p>\n
10.57% goes to my two personal addresses. The ISP address gets twice the spam of my robandjen.net address. It's also older.<\/p>\n
My Usenet address gets 20.25%; webmaster on robandjen.net gets just a smidge, .73%.<\/p>\n
Various addresses get 3.17% – these are malformed addresses (bmastgr??), info\/sales, others I couldn't specifically identify.<\/p>\n
The master account (ISP) which has never been used for anything got at least 2 spams.<\/p>\n
Amusingly, I get a smidge of legacy spam to “us at robandjen.com” for the previous domain owner.<\/p>\n
Conclusions:<\/p>\n
– dump old usenet address and use munging<\/strike><\/p>\n
– get new web crap hotmail address, dump the other three
\n – figure out how to dev-null properly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ooookay. So, for fun, I've been archiving spam. Unfortunately, I haven't been fighting it. I'm mostly apathetic about it, which means I'm part of the problem. It just seems so futile from here, and it's only going to get worse. Anyway, on to the numbers. I like numbers. I have 8 email addresses, plus I monitor the Roadrunner master account, which is unused. Two are personal email addresses – my personal domain address, and my personal isp address. Three are hotmail – one I use for web crap, a very old one that has been used on Usenet, and one I made for reasons I cannot recall just now. Two more are the webmaster accounts for my .net and .com domain, and the last one is one I used exclusively for Usenet. That last one I've retired and am now using a new one with munging. I used to be opposed to munging on Usenet; now I believe it's crucial. I, personally, received 20,007 plus spam emails in 2003. There was actually more – I had a couple of months of spotty archiving. These emails take up 140 MB of disk space. Fully 65.25% came to my hotmail addresses; the one used on Usenet is 5 years old and gets 49% of all spam. 10.57% goes to my two personal addresses. The ISP address gets twice the spam of my robandjen.net address. It's also older. My Usenet address gets 20.25%; webmaster on robandjen.net gets just a smidge, .73%. Various addresses get 3.17% – these are malformed addresses (bmastgr??), info\/sales, others I couldn't specifically identify. The master account (ISP) which has never been used for anything got at least 2 spams. Amusingly, I get a smidge of legacy spam to “us at robandjen.com” for the previous domain owner. Conclusions: – dump old usenet address and use munging – get new web crap hotmail address, dump the other three – figure out how to dev-null properly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}