Did You Really Want To Read That Spam?

Henn writes "The BBC is carrying a story about computers that track how much attention you are paying and the "worth" of individual messages. Based on these criterion, it adjusts how intrusive to make the alerts. The story is fairly short, however you can find more depth over here." Interesting ideas, but for me it's becomming less about time- my filters catch 80% of my spam, meaning it only takes me 10-20 minutes to deal with it, and more about bandwidth. At home, on my modem, downloading several megs of spam seriously interferes with my ability to work. Yay spam!

Comments

Downloading megs of spam...

[Randolpho]

At home, on my modem, downloading several megs of spam seriously interferes with my ability to work.

Try using IMAP rather than POP, or, better yet, get email with a webmail service. Seriously, it's the best option on a modem with tons of spam.

Re:Yahoo already does this...

[Randolpho]

I love my yahoo account. It's the only address I give out publicly, and the bulk folder works wonders. Grabs easily 99% of all my spam. Unfortunately, that 1% is still a problem -- when you get hundreds of s-mails a day, that 1% becomes a largish number -- but I diligently report it to the yahoo spam-cops. :)