Better Living Through Thinking

Giving Up?

Mon, 17 Sep 2007

I think the spammers are giving up on me. This is sad because my beautiful blocked-to-spam ratio is certainly going to drop. Here's the sender-blocked histogram:

20070912: ##################################################################################################### (101)
20070913: ################################################################################# (81)
20070914: ################################### (35)
20070915: ############################ (28)
20070916: ######################## (24)

versus the spams I've actually received for the same time:

20070912: ############# (13)
20070913: ### (3)
20070914: ###### (6)
20070915: ########## (10)
20070916: ######## (8)
20070917: #### (4)

and the blocked-to-spam ratio:

20070912: ######## (7.76)
20070913: ########################### (27.00)
20070914: ###### (5.83)
20070915: ### (2.80)
20070916: ### (3.00)

Don't give up on me spammers! I know that each hash-mark in the sender-blocked histogram represents half-an-hour of your zombie mail servers chewing on a dead connection to my server. I know that at the end of the half hour you're greeted with a discouraging "Connection closed" message. But please don't give up on me! You've given me such great satisfaction these past few weeks...

Morons.