>> Yes, I'm currently seeing about 98% spam. At what percentage does >> email become useless? > Food for thought, or fuel for the flames....
Or perhaps both. :) > One should ask the US Post Office. ["snail spam"] > Next talk to Ma-bell. Without the no-call list, how many junk phone > calls do you get vs want? [...] > Granted I get more per day in email, but the rates of ham/spam is > "about the same". Interesting. While in my case it's not the _US_ post office, I've been doing something akin to the same exercise as a back-of-the-envelope estimate, and I see very different numbers. Snail spam is mostly under control for me; I'd say no more than half the paper in my mailbox is junk. (That's including junk such as ads from the telco I get my home phone service from, which, while it's unwanted advertising, is not really snail-spam because of the EBR; it scales just fine.) Phone spam is vaguely comparable, though details depend on whether you roll my cell in with my land line - calls to the cell are, as far as I can recall, 100% ham. (I've gotten a few SMS spams, but after demonstrating in 2003 to my provider that I really was willing to cancel over them - some six-plus years - I've gotten only three.) > On television, you get ads every few minutes, not counting blatant > product placement. And that's a major part - probably more than half - of why I don't have a television and watch very little television even at my gf's, where I could. I don't know how much of the email aimed at me is spam; most of it is stopped before my end receives enough of it to tell, some of the worst so early I don't even have connection attempt counts (my border router blocks cruise at about 800 IPs these days). Roughly half the rest is turned away; almost all of that is spam, and almost all the stuff that gets through to my mailbox is ham. So, I don't have definite numbers. But I'd say email is significantly worse than other media for me. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.