E-mail Insanity

Message count for the 24-hour period ending 12:15 AM, 12/14/05:

Legitimate messages: 70
Spam messages: 607
Total messages: 677

That’s ridiculous. Thank goodness for filters.

EDIT: Totals for the month of December, to date: 654 legitimate messages and 6,957 spams, or 7,611 total messages. That comes out to 585.5 messages per day. The above totals do not include mail on my University account, nor on Gmail or Yahoo! <sighs>