According to a recent report about email and spam, you never see 95 percent of the electronic messages sent to you. That’s because they’re spam and have been effectively filtered by your ISP.
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\nAside from a recent spate of porn spam, the general amount of useless email I get in my inbox has been declining rapidly over the years. In fact, I would say that most days I don’t receive any spam email at all. That’s just great!<\/p>\n
Contrast the situation today with how things looked a few years back. Damn! Spam was a problem: Offers for pharmaceuticals, porn, mortgage refinancing, free this and that. It was hell.<\/p>\n
The peaceful silence doesn’t mean that the spam has stopped. Rather, it means that the Good Guys have become quite effective at halting the spam bloat before it finds its way into your email inbox.<\/p>\n
Quite effective means that you’re only getting 5 percent of the email that’s being sent to you.<\/p>\n
ISPs rely on you to report spam problems. That works because you’re probably not the only one receiving spam. Then the ISP investigates who is sending the spam. They’ll try contacting the host and getting them to stop. If that doesn’t work, they’ll block the host’s email (all of it), and potentially add the host to a blacklist<\/em> so that other ISPs will do the same.<\/p>\n The end result of diligent ISPs working on the spam problem is that you don’t receive as much spam in your inbox.<\/p>\n There’s also a weird side issue when it comes to spam. Honestly, when you pay your ISP for an email account, you’re really entitled to get all the messages sent to you, including spam. So it’s kind of a welcome type of censorship that you agree with the ISP’s filtering.<\/p>\n It would be interesting if there were an opt-out method for disregarding an ISP’s spam filtering efforts. Then again, the though of the volume of unbridled e-crap floating into my inbox every day is a bit much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to a recent report about email and spam, you never see 95 percent of the electronic messages sent to you. That’s because they’re spam and have been effectively filtered by your ISP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}