{"id":2349,"date":"2004-10-16T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T21:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/10\/16\/2349.html"},"modified":"2004-10-16T14:54:26","modified_gmt":"2004-10-16T21:54:26","slug":"spam-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/10\/16\/spam-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.rica.net\/alphae\/419coal\/\">419 scam<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, my favorite junk-mail subject line of the week: \"Earth is not round! It's dirty!\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that it happened to have been almost precisely one week since I last cleaned out my junk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}