My spam actually seems to be dying down this year, and Thunderbird is being reasonably effective in catching it:
| Year-Month | Total Spam | Effectiveness |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-01 | 417 | 0.91 |
| 2006-02 | 283 | 0.83 |
| 2006-03 | 182 | 0.82 |
| 2006-04 | 152 | 0.85 |
Thunderbird is actually the second step in my spam solution; SpamAssasin runs at a relaxed level on the server first. There are a small number of false positives, but not enough that I track them.
This analysis is another fine work of Perl that parses the dates of spam messages caught in Thunderbird’s Junk folder and those I manually move to the Missed Junk folder.
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