I’ve been collecting spam sent to my various email addresses for just over 5 years now (since 1/1/2004). I thought it was about time I shared the statistics with the world!
| Year | Spam count | Spam per day | Total spam size | Avg spam size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 11,623 | 32 | 53M | 4.6kB |
| 2005 | 8,642 | 24 | 75M | 8.7kB |
| 2006 | 7,771 | 21 | 60M | 7.7kB |
| 2007 | 21,291 | 58 | 161MB | 7.6kB |
| 2008 | 62,268 | 170 | 455MB | 7.3kB |
| 2009 to date | 1,850 | 119 | 13MB | 7.0kB |
So spam size hasn’t changed much since 2005, but the quantity triples annually from 2006 to 2008, but the rate is down in 2009 so far. Either way: guess there’s no stopping the spam machine!
You can see a sort-of-up-to-date count here: http://x3ja.co.uk/cgi-bin/spamometer.pl
You’re such a geek!!