Managing mail servers has given me an interesting perspective to the spam consumption of mail servers/relays on the internet. A majority of the email traffic running through my current mail server/relay is spam. Spam stinks, I think on this we can all agree. However, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon regarding the quanitty of spam people recieve.

And now, a little dramatic reenactment by the bitterpill.org players.

mail administrator: I shut down a mail alias for a user today. The server denied 1,700 email for that alias today. He gets over a thousand spam messages a day just for that one mail alias. Incredible.

another user: just 1,700 hundred. I get over 2,000 a day.

and...scene

I realized that as much as people hate spam, the quantity of spam you receive indicates some sort of mail prowess on your part, a kind of email/spam popularity that can be touted whenever someone mentions their spam reception quantities.

spd/epd = P - spams per day over emails per day = your email prowess.