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Spam a lot

Matt Haughey

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About 14 months ago I started using Knowspam for email whitelisting, and I remember more than one person basically said "wow, email must be broken."

While whitelisting is a bit of a pain on random strangers that email me, it does mean that I get almost no spam in the 50-60 emails I get every day. I noticed tonight that I'm getting closer to a million spams blocked since I started, at 844,904 to be exact. Divided by 14 months, that's just a hair over 2,000 spams blocked per day.

Who knew? Email really is broken.

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