The built in email program in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, “Mail” (not everything on the Mac is creative!) automagically guesses at which messages are junk and flags them as such (colouring them yellow, too). It’s been excellent at picking out spam so far — but if it’s wrong, you can let it know. So it “learns” what’s spam and what isn’t, and becomes more accurate over time. Pretty cool stuff!
So tonight I decided to sort my inbox by flag. All of a sudden, all of my junk mail is clumped together! That’s handy, makes it easy to delete them in one fell swoop:
Anyway, I did a quick calculation, and spam made up 12% of my inbox this month. That’s 94 messages. I don’t think that’s half-bad, considering I’ve been going hog-wild in recent months and using “asterizk@uvic.ca” everywhere online, since it expires in one month. (If you’re still using that address, by the way, time to update your addressbooks! Fire me an email and I’ll send you my supercool new addy.)
How do you deal with spam?