A recent New Scientist issue charted data on how much of our inboxes are filled with spam and how much arelegitimate emails. We wanted to know, what your inboxes look like and what you do to keep spammers away.
Survey after the jump...
After you answer the survey, use the comments to share your tips.
Images: Top, Linzie Hunter; bottom, New Scientist
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Comments (2)
i deal with an astounding amount of spam each day. i am responsible for over 10 email accounts between personal life and work life. and each account gets such amazing spam!
what good is spam? i've read some excellent found poetry made up of spam subject lines! i once wrote a poem using subject lines from my employer's emails to the staff, which my classmates found particularly unbelievable hehe.
I help manage the mail servers for the University where I work. We find that ~97% of all e-mail is spam.
Fortunately, that's filtered at our appliances, and we don't have to deal with that on our servers. Otherwise, that would be a truly massive amount of e-mail, since we support ~50,000 students and ~20,000 faculty & staff, and we do many millions of legitimate mail messages per day.