Leo Laporte is a well known geek. He has a radio show, podcast, TV show and many books to his credit. He has just listed his email and website stats for the month of February. You think you have spam, Leo reports ..
In February I received more than three-quarters of a million email messages at leoville.com:
718,597 spam messages 1,039 viruses 20,504 good messages 39,114 bad or invalid headers ------------ 779,254 total messages in Feb
In other words, only 2.64% of my email was good. Actually it’s somewhat less than that since my local spam filter rejects about a third of the mail that gets through MailRoute (MailRoute avoids false positives by being fairly conservative). The good news is that over 26,000 spam messages and 40 viruses are filtered out of my inbox every day. If I had to look at all of those I’d stop using email entirely.
That’s nothing! Check out this article:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/200339_gatesspam19.html
Blah. I’m no leo laporte but at my peaka year ago I was getting bombarded pretty well ( http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10805146~mode=flat the graph is mine). Fortunately when I lost my ability to host my own email/domain and moved to a cruddy hosting service, their overloaded server bounced a lot of email for me. Evidently this caused me to be dropped from quite a few spam lists.