Our junk mail/spam filters on our university mail servers are pretty darn good in terms of blocking spam, but every once in awhile, some slips through the cracks.


I get an administrative email every day that reports all the junk mail that was blocked from my inbox. That administrative email includes a list of the junk mail, and an option to view the mail if I click on it. It's a nifty feature because sometimes students email me using their non-university email accounts and their email gets flagged as junk because of the address and/or a combination of the address and the subject line of their email. So, I always make sure to check my admin email regarding blocked junk emails every day. I do this religiously.


What I find interesting about the admin emails is at the top of each one, it reports the number of junk messages versus the number of good messages received by my entire institution within a 24 hour period. This little report is done both textually, with the actual numbers written out, and visually, with a nice little bar for each category--red for junk mail, blue for "good mail".


According to this morning's, junk mail summary report, within the last 24 hours, 3,218,173 junk emails were blocked at my institution alone. Of the 3,218,1733,218,173 junk emails, 103 were blocked from my email account. In contrast to the 3,218,173 junk emails that were blocked at my institution in the last 24 hour period, there were apparently only 125,340 "good" emails sent to our university email servers.


Holy Hell...that's a lot of junk email.