My spam stats are always relevant, even after a prolonged period of silence. For the month of June, spam surged to 51.4% of my e-mail. This eerily coincides with some spam statistics published last month.
There were 2112 spam messages, of which 14 were not caught by POPFile (99.34%). There were 17 false positives — one personal message from a friend, five from mailing lists, and nine for services I recently signed up for (ie: Amazon Associates). I’ve configured two magnets in POPFile to eliminate some of the misclassifications.
Active Spam Killer seems to be doing it’s job — no spam has reached my tby@yehl.us Inbox and nobody has complained about it. Of course, if someone did complain I might not receive it…
On August 1st I’m going to upgrade from POPFile 0.17.5 and cancel the address that receives over 90% of my spam. The net effect is that I will receive just a few hundred spams, but changes in the POPFile parser will likely result in many misclassifications.
