Introducing a new measurement: an e-mail junk quotient (JQ), defined as e-mails deleted on sight divided by non-spam e-mails received over a given period of time. N.B. that JQ doesn’t factor in spam. It’s actual e-mails sent to you.
The past two days, my JQ has been at about 95%. It’s typically below 50%. It’s actually pretty remarkable how bad it is: I’ll check my e-mail, have four new messages, and just seeing the subject and the sender, I delete them. I don’t care about a marketing internship, because I’m not a marketing major. I don’t care about a study-abroad trip in London, especially when it’s the third e-mail I’ve had about it.
Am I alone here? So much of the e-mail I receive is just utter junk!
I’m receiving a TON of spam right now. It’s insane. I think I need to lower my Spam Assassin threshold.
How much of the junk you get is sent from me? 😉
Junk mail filters catch a lot of it for me. The junk mail filter in Windows Live Mail (replaced Outlook Express) is pretty good. That is what I use for my home email which still gets a good bit of junk mail. Some days 50% is still junk though. I suspect that is because that address has been on the Internet for close to a decade though.
My work email gets very little spam. ALmost all of it goes into the junk folder. The companies spam filters are VERY good.