Numbers of Spam
July 30, 2006 by upyourego
Joe posted a comment on the last post suggesting this whole spam thing was a fruitless experiment as it wouldn’t prove anything because you get spam messages in acounts nobody has the address for.
This is a very valid point and I think I mentioned the point before in the last post - either way here is my first update in terms of spam messages per each of the big services.
It’s a useful experiment to see which one attracts the most spam and deals with it the best.
Yahoo!
40 spam messages - 15 were in the main folder and 25 in the Junk folder.
Hotmail
25 spam messages - 8 were in the main folder and 17 in the Junk folder.
Lycos
12 spam messages - 6 were in the main folder and 6 in the Junk folder.
Gmail
No messages at all
So right now in terms of spam messages in total Google is leading the pack followed by Lycos then Hotmail and Yahoo are last with the most spam.
But in terms of the services that deal with the spam best (numbers in Junk folder v numbers not in Junk folder) I’d say Hotmail has done the best but none have done THAT well - letting through some pretty obvious spam messages.
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