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Recently I changed my spam filters such that instead of just dumping all spam into a single folder, it creates a new one each day. I did this because I was curious to see just how man spams I was receiving per day, and I was too lazy to set up Procmail to do extra logging functions or write a script to check the procmail logs, and really too lazy to do it manually.

So here’s what my spam folder looks like:

Yup. Nearly 500 messages a day, not counting the “low” day on Sunday, and the day I started (half way through the day) and today.
What surprised me was that Sunday was such a light day. I wouldn’t think the day of the week would matter to spam bots. Then again, the previous Sunday was every big as busy as other days of the week, so maybe it was just a fluke.