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Old 02-02-2004, 05:57 PM  
Sausage
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Originally posted by NetRodent


Over the weekend (friday 9:00pm to monday 10:00 am) I got about 9500 emails not counting internal "event" notifications. Of the 9500 around 9000 were spam with the remaining being legitimate mail, bounces, viruses, etc. My spam filter catches about 99% of the spam I recieve, but generates enough false positives that I have to manually review the spambox daily. Today it took me around two and half hours to make sure nothing was improperly flagged as spam. Estimating this over the course of a year I loose between fifteen to twenty thousand dollars in lost productivity. How much "fuss" is that worth?
While I am not getting quite that volume, it's pretty damn close. Got a nice little program that scans the deleted spam folder and automatically generates spam complaints to about everyone who takes them. Sure it doesn't lessen the spam, but ....... ;)

Anyway, who uses email much anymore?
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