Eisenstadt's Analysis Of 8 Years' Worth Of Email

Hylton writes "Thought this might be of interest: Marc Eisenstadt's saved every email he's gotten over the past eight years, including spam, and run an analysis of it."

Apparently the analysis is still running

[Anonymous Coward]

on their webserver.

Spam

[thinkliberty]

I have received more spam in the past week than I have legitimate email in the past 10 years.

Remembering when..

[Bite-lover]

Must be nice to be able to look back on porn-spam and feel old. 'Hot XXX - Newcomer Jenna!'

!42

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparantly the computer spent months compiling and cross referencing only to spit out this cryptic message: Host not found

Slashdotted

[Anonymous Coward]

If its already slashdotted, he's also probably saving all of his server logs as well.

hah

[usernotfound]

my yahoo account i use to collect spam gets 1700 a month, while my "real" email account i've recieved 1566 since august of 2003, only 10 of those being spam.

Re:Spam

[PopeAlien]

Ah! but did you save and analyze them?

Einstein?

[kristopher]

Don't misread like I did. I was like, what the hell was Einstein doing with email..

So he....

[Robotron23]

Saved it for what exactly? Maybe vintage 1997 pr0n e-mails are now worth something to antique pr0n collectors...

Re:Spam

[BosstonesOwn]

I have analyzed it all and apparently the people sending me these spam messages know my plight.

I need a bigger penis

I need teen sluts who suck **** on webcams

And apparently I shouldn't be telling anyone this but this nice man in nigeria , who is the lawyer in charge of my long lost grand father mutambi wikimbo is trying to get me $5 million american dollars but I have to pay a tax of $5 thousand american dollars to nigeria and he will gladly handle it for me.What a swell guy.

Back in the old days...

[Sheepdot]

I remember a time when the size of my genitalia wasn't an issue.

I remember when I never had any Korean friends.

I remember a time when I went to the pharmacist for a drug I needed, not the pharmacist asking me which drugs I wanted to buy online.

I remember when consolidating a loan was a big decision instead of "just a click away!".

I remember a time where when I left high school, there was no chance in hell I'd ever have to hear from those nitwits again.

God, I miss those days.

Re:Spam

[agraupe]

You mean your Nigerian contact only has $5,000,000 to offer you??? What a waste of time, mine has at least 60,000,000 (six ZERO millions) DOLLARS Amrican, of which I get 30%. Best of all, there is no risk!

Re:every month on lug radio

[QuantumG]

obviously I disagree. If you're willing to fund people who piss off millions, just so your penis can be larger, you should spend some time in jail.

Re:Back in the old days...

[Ian Action]

I'm sorry you're so upset...

So, would you like to buy some ink cartidges?

Re:Spam

[mattyrobinson69]

mutambi wikimbo is a bastard. i sent him my $5000 and i haven't heard back from him.

hmm. maybe we share a grandfather

Gelfling's Axiom of Irrelevant eMail

[gelfling]

Is this:

90% of all eMail is useless the moment it arrives in your inbox.

The First Corollary of eMail age is this:

All remaining eMail is useless no more than one year after the moment it arrives in your inbox.

The Second Corollary of eMail age is this:

eMail accidently deleted will become instantly irrelevant or it will be resent without your request.

Re:every month on lug radio

[QuantumG]

ahh the irony of your post combined with your sig (Ferion being amway for geeks and all).

Even Faster Link

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Indeed

[arbitraryaardvark]

You should respond, if you can do so in person.

Uh..

[danielrose]

Did anyone else find this article INCREDIBLY boring?? I just couldn't care how a balding man analyzes email..

A great love affair ...

[joe_n_bloe]

I have every email that I've ever received since 1992, with some exceptions for work accounts, and if I'd just thrown them out on the "if it's more than a year old..." principle, I'd have missed one of the best email romances any geek has ever had.

Re:Hotmail

[SamSim]

where is this spam phenominon? i get maybe two a week....

Really? What's your email?

Re:Spam

[slimak]

Thats a great idea! I have many fond memories from college that involve signing my roomate up for hundreds of explicit mailing lists using some simple application that let you enter and email and check categories. It backfired somewhat though as he really enjoyed many of the porn services.