Summation: Auren Hoffman: Summation: Hoffman Spam Index -- tally of spam I receive

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Hoffman Spam Index

I used to think I get loads and loads of spam (I define spam as something I did not sign up for and not sent to me by a friend or colleague and not something sent individually to me. SPAM is an email message generated usually to thousands of people). I don't get too much though. I get around 80 utterly spammed messages a week. No big deal -- I used to just hit the delete key.

Recently I have begun tallying the spam I get into the Hoffman spam Index because I wanted to know what types of spam I am getting.

Hoffman Spam Index:

Week	Spams
7/19/98-7/25/98	77
7/12/98-7/18/98	105
7/5/98-7/11/98	89
6/29/98-7/4/98	72
6/21/98-6/28/98	87
6/14/98-6/20/98	118
6/7/98-6/13/98	93
5/31/98-6/6/98	77
5/24/98-5/30/98	68
5/17/98-5/23/98	78
5/10/98-5/16/98	94
5/3/98-5/9/98	69
4/25/98-5/2/98	87

Hoffman Spam Subject Index:

Subject	Spams	Percent
Mailing Lists	247	26.9%
Income Opportunities	188	20.5%
Products and Services	123	13.4%
Press Releases	103	11.2%
Marketing and Spam for Spam	102	11.1%
Sex	43	4.7%
Technical Services	38	4.1%
Web Sites Promotion	36	3.9%
Random	39	4.2%
TOTAL	919

Before I actually started tabulating my spam, I always thought I received an extremely high volume of sex related spam. Maybe because it annoyed me so much. But sex related spam only accounts for 4.7% of my spam.

I could decrease my spam significantly if I could just unsubscribe from all those mailing lists that I get from so many web sites and products. But most of these web sites make it inordinately hard to unsubscribe -- so I just filter their e-mails.

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