{"id":31,"date":"2007-12-15T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T07:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/2007\/12\/spam-decreasing\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T07:12:36","slug":"spam-decreasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2007\/12\/spam-decreasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Decreasing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article suggests that spam on the internet might actually be decreasing. Running my own mail server, I get the chance to look at statistics as to how much mail I get, and how much appears to be spam.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/techbiz\/it\/news\/2007\/11\/google_spam\">Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Month to month, the amount of email passing through my server rises and falls, and while there is no definite trend in the terms of sheer volume, the percentage of &#8220;good&#8221; email versus &#8220;bad&#8221; email is about the same.<\/p>\n<p>So while there are months where the spammers appear less active, overall, it&#8217;s still about the same percentage of all email, based on my own server&#8217;s statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, not a single piece of spam has hit my inbox in months &#8211; if you know how to filter properly, it&#8217;s achievable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article suggests that spam on the internet might actually be decreasing. Running my own mail server, I get the chance to look at statistics as to how much mail I get, and how much appears to be spam. Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So Month to month, the amount of email passing through my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}