I am curious about the number and types of Spam email that I have been getting. I know that it has been a lot, but I have never really looked at it that closely. When filtering it by hand..I spend far too much time filtering by hand because mozilla-mail and thunderbird do a poor job of filtering, even with almost 9,000 messages in the junk folder to learn from, but that is another story. Anyway, when filtering by hand, I will often sort by subject to group like subjects together and delete a lot of Spams at the same time.

So anyway, I figure it might be interesting to see how many Spams I get each day, what the most common subject lines and senders are, their source netblocks, etc. I’m thinking of even doing things like putting in whether they would have been blocked by various Spam blocking programs like Vipul Razor’s system, variour RBLs, etc.

So check my SPAMcounter page soon to see how its going. I’ve saved up a lot of SPAM to send through this thing to get a good start, and soon I’ll start grabbing my Yahoo bulk mail too. If its looks interesting, I’ll submit to Slashdot or something.