Spam report
I just noticed that it happened to have been almost precisely one week since I last cleaned out my junk mailbox, so I looked at some numbers while they were handy.
During a one-week period from last Saturday noon through today at noon, I received a little over 4100 pieces of junk email. (That includes spam, viruses, 419 scam letters, and assorted other stuff that's hard to classify.) Average of nearly 600 pieces a day, or about 24 an hour, or about one every two minutes.
Eudora's spam filter is reasonably good, but not perfect. There were about 240 false negatives (junk mail that Eudora didn't mark as such), so Eudora is correctly marking about 94% of my incoming junk mail as junk. There were also 4 false positives (non-junk that Eudora marked as junk), out of about 500 total non-junk messages, so Eudora is marking a little under 1% of my non-junk incoming mail as junk. Unfortunately, two of those false positives were fiction submissions. Fortunately, I always search my junk mailbox for the phrase "FICTION SUB" (and do other checks for submissions that don't use that subject line) before clearing out my junk mail folder.
Just over 1400 of the junk messages were in non-English character sets, mostly Asian languages and Cyrillic. So over a third of my junk mail is in languages I can't read, often in character sets that I don't even have a font for.
Finally, my favorite junk-mail subject line of the week: "Earth is not round! It's dirty!"
