Eisenstadt's Analysis Of 8 Years' Worth Of Email 230
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."
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
Article Text (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Indeed (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Link seems to be down... (Score:5, Informative)
It still tries to access the original site, so it rather slow but you can read the article.
Shows value of backups (Score:2, Informative)
I felt like I lost a part of my past...
Goes to show the value of backing up your data.
Re:Indeed (Score:3, Informative)
Re:every month on lug radio (Score:3, Informative)
Funny thing is, they don't necessarily make money from people buying it, but rather the people advertising it. "Give me $10,000, and I'll get your message out to 10,000 people!" "Okay! That's a lot cheaper than buying a banner on a big site!" (Note: The numbers are made up.)
Re:Raymond Chen's Analysis... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Not very much (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Indeed (Score:3, Informative)
Two words:
Add those to your setup and see that drop to about 30-40. Let SpamAssassin clean up the rest and forget about it.