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Ask HN: Where's all the spam?
I just noticed something weird today in my Gmail account.
I'm used to getting a lot of spam. My e-mail address has been the same for years and I regularly post it on many websites without obfuscating it. Therefore I get a lot of spam.
Gmail deletes messages from your spam folder when they are 30 days old. Therefore, by looking at the unread count of the spam folder I can know how many spam emails I received in the last month.
At one point I remember the count was around 50,000. I think at one point it was also 10,000. Today I just noticed it's 1,557.
What's going on? Has there been a sudden worldwide decrease in spam?
- jacquesm 17y agohttp://www.senderbase.org/home/detail_spam_volume?displayed=lastmonth&action=&screen=&order= http://www.senderbase.org/home/detail_spam_volume?displayed=...
- cool-RR 17y agoThis only shows the last month, which doesn't help a lot. I'd want something like 6 months at least.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoIn case you're interested, and in case it helps, here are my personal spam incoming figures: 2009 06 : 44832 @ 1494 /day 2009 07 : 74855 @ 2414 /day 2009 08 : 66190 @ 2135 /day 2009 09 : 62081 @ 2069 /day 2009 10 : 63961 @ 2063 /day 2009 11 : 57362 @ 1912 /day 2009 12 : 37663 @ 1214 /day 20100101 : 1041 20100102 : 1045 20100103 : 902 20100104 : 1201 20100105 : 1168 20100106 : 1535 20100107 : 1800 20100108 : 1396 20100109 : 1548 20100110 : 1650 20100111 : 1629 20100112 : 1881 20100113 : 2692 20100114 : 2695 20100115 : 2712 20100116 : 2495 20100117 : 1966 20100118 : 2683 20100119 : 1646 20100120 : 1221 20100121 : 1351 20100122 : 1423 20100123 : 1306 Average : 1648
- cool-RR 17y agoThanks, that is interesting. It seems though that you experienced a decline of 50%, while mine was more like 95%.