According to Canadian research firm Ipsos Reid, those in Canada receive 4,524 spam messages each last year. That's about 49% of their overall emails. The good news? Spam fell as a percentage, and in total, for 2004; down from 68% in 2003.
No telling why Canadians (supposedly) get so many fewer spam emails than the rest of us (at 87% by most estimates). Maybe it's because they already have inexpensive Canadian pharmaceuticals? Just a guess…
2. I manage the main public email accounts for the company I work for. I have been tracking my spam totals each month since last January (and saving them as .pst files). Here's how it stacked up (thank God for SpamBayes):
2004 Total - 188,309
December 2004 - 17,783
November 2004 - 14,376
October 2004 - 16,125
September 2004 - 16,383
August 2004 - 14,862
July 2004 - 16,383
June 2004 - 18,051
May 2004 - 16,383
April 2004 - 17,515
March 2004 - 15,236
February 2004 - 12,389
January 2004 - 12,823
3. That, plus there isn't as much housing as in the U.S., so less mortgage spam.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Richard Nacht
4. Geez, I probably still get over 100 spams a day... but I only see a few enter my inbox with the free SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.apache.org/) running on my web server and MailWasher Pro (http://www.SpamKillingSoftware.com/software.html) running on my PC to clean up the few emails it happens to miss.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by John Martel
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1. A mere 8.39% percent of my email is spam--but I get a lot more email than the average person.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Elliott Back