Here are the stats on the mail that was finally delivered to
my address at IMSc during November 2007. The "devnull" messages
are those that were instantly sent to /dev/null
, the
"junk" messages were messages that were sent to a separate folder
--- all of those too turned out to be spam!
Total Number of messages = 4450
Total Number of devnull messages = 1993
Total Number of junk messages = 563
Residual Number of Useful messages = 4450 - 1993 - 563
= 1894
Total size of all messages = 40157139
Total size of all devnull messages = 11788662
Total size of all junk messages = 6454568
Total size of all useful messages = 40157139 - 11788662 - 6454568
= 21913909
Seems that roughly 50% of the mail is spam.