It is now 4:35pm. Since 10:00pm last night, I have received 280<\/b> spam emails, and I will not be surprised if I hit 400 for the day. This happens every day. <\/p>\n
I can't close the email accounts that get the most junk mail because they are business-related - and so I can't put 'good sender' filters on them because I don't know who my customers are ahead of time. I do have automated filters set up to catch stuff, and they do a pretty good job. But because the filtering often mistakes good mail for bad, I still have to scan through the junk to make sure I'm not missing anything important. False positives pretty much defeat the point of having a filter at all. I can only sigh and sift through the endless drug and porn emails to try to find good messages. <\/p>\n
Someone needs to come up with a new solution; email is fundamentally broken.<\/p>\n
Update: 5:00pm, 300<\/b> junk emails.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned for the exciting final tally!<\/p>\n
Update: 10:00pm, 374<\/b> junk emails! While I fell short of my 400 prediction, having a reason to mark the arrival of each spam as a step towards a goal, instead of simply feeling helpless disgust as they pile up did make the evening a little more fun. <\/p>\n
And since I typed that last paragraph, 9 more have arrived. Grand total: 383<\/b>. The polls are now closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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