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Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks
MojoKid writes "A recent study (PDF) by Richard Clayton at Cambridge University determined that the first letter of a someone's email address directly affects how much spam they receive. As shown in the graph at either link above, email addresses with numbers as their first characters receive even fewer spam emails. The corpus used in the study was 8 weeks' worth of email from the UK ISP Demon Internet, just over half a billion messages, of which 56% was deemed to be spam."
Hi. I note you don't publish your gmail address on /. Try that and then tell me about the spam you haven't seen.
Zebra's and aardvarks don't eat Spam. Or ham.
Did the city manager get fired because every time anyone tried to talk to him about city management, he would say, "There is no city manager, only Zoul"?
I'm so sorry.
Why would spammers look for email addresses in their own working directory (./)? I guess I am just not up-to-date on my spamming techniques.
Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.
No, I think it was the sleeping above his covers thing that did it.
Zebras already have big penises!
FRA: STFU GTFO