Thunderbird<\/a>‘s excellent spam filtering – and at 300+ messages per day (on average), that’s just too much mail to weed through on a daily basis through webmail. So I didn’t check my mail at all while I was away.<\/p>\nSo that’s 2,414 emails in almost exactly one week<\/strong>.<\/p>\nThis spam thing is becoming a HUGE problem!<\/p>\n
My new year’s wish this year is for less spam!<\/p>\n
p.s. – After Thunderbird downloaded all that mail, it left about 20 messages in my inbox – all of the rest was marked properly as spam and moved to my junk mail folder. Though it did take a few minutes to download all that mail – even over a cable modem connection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, it was a long week, but I’m back home… and now the dreaded moment arrives, when I open my email to discover… 2,414 new messages. Almost all of these are SPAM. 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