At 20:01 -0500 3/23/03, Kee Hinckley wrote:
At 1:54 PM -0800 3/23/03, william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net wrote:
> 2. Relative amount of spam
a) spam as a percentage of total email (spam messages / total messages)
b) spam as a percentage of *non-spam* email (spam messages / accepted
messages)
Would like to all see: size of spam messages / total size of email messages
size of regular emails / total size of spam
I assume that we understand that these numbers are going to be very
inaccurate? Because if they were accurate, then presumably we'd
know how to identify spam and we wouldn't be having this
conversation.
discussion reminds me of this...
"Criminal laws in this area are constitutionally limited to hard-core
pornography. I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of
material I understand to be embraced with that shorthand description. ...
But I know it when I see it."
--Justice Potter Stewart (concurring), Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S.
184, 198 (1964).
w/r/t numbers, I ran a 30-day study of my own Hotmail box last year,
with these results...
Size(K) Count
Legitimate messages 406 46
Spams in inbox 1319 269
Spams in junk mail box 3819 552
Total spam 5138 821
"Spam" included only messages from entities I had never had contact
with, not including advertisements (wanted or unwanted) from vendors
with whom i'd done business or contacted deliberately.
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