And the answer is…. 119
From 9am on Saturday until 9pm Monday evening my email inbox received 119 messages. That breaks down as follows;
- 37 General spam (the usual porn and pills crap)
- 29 Robotic Spam (automatically submitted robotic link building crap from the various web forms that filter down to my personal email address)
- 24 Normal clutter (newsletters etc from companies I’ve bought things from, or signed up to for whatever reason)
- 5 Phishing Scams (fake emails from banks/paypal etc asking me to login so they can steal my identity)
- 3 Nigerian Scams (people asking for my bank account details so they can send me zillions of dollars)
- 11 FaceBook Spam (people tagging me in photos, friend requests/updates & the like)
- 7 Service updates (from companies I do actually buy services from, usually giving me updates on those services)
- 2 New Business Contacts (from people who are actually looking for flash or drupal development services)
- 1 Personal Email (from a real, live friend of mine in the UK who was actually sending me an email)
And that’s before I checked my RSS reader which had 213 new items, but at least I can simply unsubscribe from RSS feeds. And to be fair, most of those entries were some bloke I used to work with who went to Florida on holiday and uploaded the entire contents of his camera to flickr.
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