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Well, it’s about time I took a stock of the spam count again. I do it every year and I reckon an update it in order, so instead of just deleting I’ll keep track of the amount of spam I receive over the next week. Today gets us off to a good start with a total of 781 messages received, of which five were genuine and the remaining 776 were spam. Full of offers of vi@gra, xanax, the opportunity to fire my boss and the key to making a fortune on eBay. There would have been less genuine email if I’d not got into a couple of back-wards forwards exchanges. If I’d been relying solely on unsolicited incoming mail the ration would have been closer to 776:3. Note, these figures don’t include my work account. This count is purely from my personal inbox.
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