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| REJECTED OUTRIGHT: | 81.80% |
| ACCEPTED BUT FLAGGED AS SPAM: | 3.85% |
| ACCEPTED OUTRIGHT: | 14.35% |
That’s around 6 spam emails for every legit message! While most of the dreck never makes it into our ISP’s users mailboxes, mainly due to effective spam filtering, it’s still a heinous waste of bandwitdh, storage and human time.
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Interesting ratio. It's also a bit scary and may suggest that email is surely but steadily becoming less and less useful. I remember it described as a "killer application" some years ago.
On a side note, how do you do those bar charts of yours? I noticed them on a few of your posts and was just wandering if you actually hand-code them every time you want to plot something? Or is it some sort of plugin?
It's not a plugin but rather a PHP-CLI script which generates the HTML output based on data passed as an argument. I'll offer the source code in an upcoming post.