Don’t call me DOM

I’ve run very crude statistics on the amount of spam I’m getting and filtering in the past 6 months:  Read more... (391 words, 2 images, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

• I’m getting between 500 and 600 messages a day
• among those, around 400 are spam
• among them, the vast majority (~90%) is simply trashed, relying on SpamAssassin – I basically direct all messages with a SA score greater than 12 to /dev/null
• on the remaining 10%, 90 to 95% are put in a distinct mailbox (cleverly labeled spam)
• … which leaves me with about 3 spams in my inbox per day, which is quite manageable