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Yes: http://bit.ly/lerK1S http://bit.ly/lerK1S (This is a time series graph of the count of my GMail spam folder since 2009, updated daily.)

ScottWhigham 15y ago
??? You are getting more than 4,000 spam emails a day now and were above 30,000? Do you have your email listed publicly? Also how do you automate the counting and storing it in the spreadsheet? I think that's pretty damn cool.
- Morendil 15y ago
  It's per-month, not per-day - GMail only stores 30 days' worth of email in the Spam folder. As to how - cron job on my server querying GMail via IMAP. Source below. Manually copy and paste the resulting text file to a GDoc spreadsheet; use the Time Series widget to generate the chart. require 'net/imap' require 'date' imap = Net::IMAP.new('imap.gmail.com',993,true) imap.login('yourlogin','yourpwd') msgs = imap.status("[Gmail]/Spam",["MESSAGES"])["MESSAGES"] puts Date.today.to_s + "\t" + msgs.to_s
aquarin 15y ago
Does this graph show some seasonal pattern?
- Morendil 15y ago
  Doesn't look like it, but perhaps a closer analysis would show some. One thing it shows for sure is a change, early on, in GMail's algorithm for deleting old mails left in the Spam folder - that's where it goes from jagged to smoother. And it confirms the article's "spam at its lowest" story.
ColinWright 15y ago
That's almost bump-for-bump identical to my data, only I show data going back to 2002, and you're only showing back to 2009. The correspondence is remarkable: http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpamGraphs.html?HN http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpamGraphs.html?HN
- Morendil 15y ago
  That's one reason I set up this cron in the first place - I wanted to see if "my spam" was the same as "everyone else's spam". I wish I'd had your foresight and set this up earlier, but now I'm glad I didn't let that prevent me from doing it anyway; it's always fun to play scientist. :)

ScottWhigham 15y ago

??? You are getting more than 4,000 spam emails a day now and were above 30,000? Do you have your email listed publicly? Also how do you automate the counting and storing it in the spreadsheet? I think that's pretty damn cool.

Morendil 15y ago
It's per-month, not per-day - GMail only stores 30 days' worth of email in the Spam folder. As to how - cron job on my server querying GMail via IMAP. Source below. Manually copy and paste the resulting text file to a GDoc spreadsheet; use the Time Series widget to generate the chart. require 'net/imap' require 'date' imap = Net::IMAP.new('imap.gmail.com',993,true) imap.login('yourlogin','yourpwd') msgs = imap.status("[Gmail]/Spam",["MESSAGES"])["MESSAGES"] puts Date.today.to_s + "\t" + msgs.to_s

aquarin 15y ago

Does this graph show some seasonal pattern?

Morendil 15y ago
Doesn't look like it, but perhaps a closer analysis would show some. One thing it shows for sure is a change, early on, in GMail's algorithm for deleting old mails left in the Spam folder - that's where it goes from jagged to smoother. And it confirms the article's "spam at its lowest" story.

ColinWright 15y ago

That's almost bump-for-bump identical to my data, only I show data going back to 2002, and you're only showing back to 2009. The correspondence is remarkable: http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpamGraphs.html?HN http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpamGraphs.html?HN

Morendil 15y ago
That's one reason I set up this cron in the first place - I wanted to see if "my spam" was the same as "everyone else's spam". I wish I'd had your foresight and set this up earlier, but now I'm glad I didn't let that prevent me from doing it anyway; it's always fun to play scientist. :)