johan's Journal

So last Friday, 1 Aug 2003, i compiled some statistics about my email. (Just my personal email, not any other user on my system). My system mail logs go back to 18 May 2003. So these statistics cover the last 75 days:

Total Messages Received	8,244
Auto-replies and bounces from SPAM complaints (I send mail about most pieces of spam i receive.)	740
Total Messages, minus SPAM auto-replies:	7,504	(100%)
Spam	2,465	32.85%
Mailing lists	2,018	26.89%
System jobs	1,625	21.66%

I remove those auto-replies because my mail server would not have received them had someone in their domain not spammed me.

On average, i probably receive about two personal mail messages a day out of about 151 total messages per day.

I've saved all the SPAM i've received since 21 June 2002; It's 45 MB, uncompressed.

I'm thinking i like writing to my own journal better than to LJ, for a few reasons:

• I just like having my stuff on my machines, and i already have lots of machines running.

• Technically, i do appreciate being to use the wealth of Unix tools (grep, awk, etc.) to dork with my HTML.