Spam Counts and Misc News for Week Ending May 13th

Spam Counts

The 30-day spam count for my Gmail account dropped almost 7% to 366 spam messages. None made it through. Back on December 3rd when I started counting the spam I had only 18 spam messages in a 5 day period. Now I’m averaging 61 spam messages every five days.

Comment spam at The OS Quest almost doubled again this week, the lifetime total was up 87% in just a week with 850 new spam comments which brings the current total to 1,826. Trackback spam continues to be a problem with 4 spam trackbacks getting posted.

Comment spam to this site remains slower in number but is grower as fast as The OS Quest. Fifty new spam comments were received which was a 86% increase with a current total of 108.

Site Changes

A couple of structural changes to the Spam Chronicles. The calendar is gone from the left sidebar as is the archive by month drop-down. I think most people are like me and don’t browse by month, especially for a blog like this. To compensate I added a sitemap that’s in the header menu. It list’s all my site pages plus the posts. The posts are listed by category, with the most recent posts listed first.