This morning I cleaned out my catch-all SPAM folder– the stuff that SpamAssassin throws away. In Linux I can kill the whole folder with a one-line command, without even having to read any of it.
This evening I checked again and it had 94 new messages in it. Almost all of it porn and “stock tips”. Not even a full day.
I also started cleaning out 5 years’ worth of political SPAM too, all of it procmail filtered into folders. Thousands of messages, almost all of them “urgent actions” that were probably urgent at the time but are totally useless now. I think I’m going to /dev/null them instead.
SPAM is becoming the currency of politics. Seems like every “petition” or “action” is just a way to glean your email address, to send you more “urgent actions” and pleas for money.
I’m not using a real email address for those anymore.
