I have to say I think you're doing something wrong somewhere.. excluding official role addresses I receive a handful (15ish?) spam mails per day and I've been using some of my email addresses for years. A couple are used on websites so they are published. Perhaps to an extent I'm lucky, but I watch where I put my email address, tend to use a different user when submitting web forms so I can filter if necessary.. I've noticed the worst offenders for taking email addresses and distributing them are things like search engine submits and online games. All 'official/business' type sites seem to be responsible with their email databases.. Steve On Sun, 5 May 2002, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> We can grit our teeth and make that statement now, when spam is > (handwave, guess, maybe) 30% of our incoming mail load. > > It's going to become a lot harder to make as that percentage > approaches 99. Which it will, and probably sooner than any of us want > to think about.
FWIW, my mother got a new email account a two weeks ago, which I just got around to setting her machine up to log into this afternoon. There were 817 pieces of mail in her inbox, of which seven weren't spam. That comes to 99.14%. I'm sure that'll go down a bit as she begins to use the account more, but I doubt it'll go down much. For it to go down to 30%, she'd need to receive 953 pieces of valid email each week, and I'd guess the actual number, from looking at her prior email account, is closer to 15. Which would still put us at nearly 97% spam.
-Bill