{"id":578,"date":"2007-05-01T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2007-05-01T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T17:59:30","slug":"experiments-with-unsolicited-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/05\/experiments-with-unsolicited-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments with unsolicited mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many folks I have an @yahoo.com e-mail account.  Unlike many of the folks I know who have such an account I&#8217;m pretty good about going in and clearing out my spam folder.  It may just be the <acronym title=\"Obessive\/Compulsive Disorder\">OCD<\/acronym> in me but my friend K.&#8217;s approach (&#8220;What?  They&#8217;ll get deleted eventually.&#8221;) gives me hives.<\/p>\n<p>I did an experiment last month, though, just to see how many unsolicited messages this fairly active, fairly public address would collect in a month.<\/p>\n<p>487 \u00c2\u00b1 4 (This accounts for the three messages in the box dated March 26, 2038)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not many by most standards.  Two jobs ago I was responsible for the webmaster@ e-mail box for my company.  We collected that many messages in a day.  Of course, we were also a huge non-profit and thus more of a target than my one little Yahoo! address which is clearly registered to a private individual.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something unnaturally satisfying, though, about following that link that says &#8220;Empty&#8221; beside the Bulk Folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many folks I have an @yahoo.com e-mail account. Unlike many of the folks I know who have such an account I&#8217;m pretty good about going in and clearing out my spam folder. It may just be the OCD in me but my friend K.&#8217;s approach (&#8220;What? They&#8217;ll get deleted eventually.&#8221;) gives me hives. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}