[Mimedefang] fun conclusion

[Ben Kamen]

I once worked at a DOTcom style startup that eventually tanked... but in
our busy days, I used to be on everyone's mail list being one of the
primary company support people....

I left for a vacation for 4 days and came back to a mailbox typically
filled with 800+ emails.

Spam never bothered me while I worked there since is was a few email in
hundreds...

Once the company went under and I no longer got 200emails a day, my
threshold dropped where I couldn't tolerate a couple of spam's a day...
and now it was growing... I started blacklisting.... I installed
spamassassin... I... I... hehehe...

I have actually had that same thought concerning myself.... I could see
the habit of constantly checking my email so I could flush out the noise
in favor of finding something that wasn't static. Now all I get is
pertinent email... on a less often interval.

In psychology, this is called "sensory adaptation" where our bodies
average out our surroundings to cope. Hahahah... Never thought it would
apply to email. :)

 -Ben

On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Fredrik Hansen wrote:
>
> A got this friend of mine, who's wife got alot of spam, ~1000/week.
> As a favour I filtered her mail, and after three weeks of running she was
> 100% that the setup didnt work, she had only gotten 2 mails!
> "Hey - I'm not getting any mail, whats wrong?"
> Kinda funny I thought.

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