That's the number of spam emails I just deleted off my system that I had been collecting since November of 2002. (Yes, I realize that's more than 1500 messages a month... I get A LOT) I'd been in search of a good Outlook-plugable bayesian spam filter for some time, and only recently found one that I like. If you're unaware, bayesian filters are considered to be the best among spam-filtering mechanisms, but to be effective, they must be trained. So I had been saving up all of my spam until I found a good enough filter that I could train. About a month ago, I started using SpamBayes, but I held onto my arsenal of spam until I was confident in the program.
At some point I'm going to setup a SpamAssassin server on my home network and won't need SpamBayes, but that day has not yet come.
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