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As this blog reaches another milestone (this is the 200th post), I get the feeling I’ve written far more than I set out to. So I thought I’d round up some statistics:
- 200 posts – approximately 1.6/day since 25th June.
- 246 comments – approximately 1.96/day, and an average of 1.23/article.
- 2,958 spam comments caught by Akismet – approximately 167/week – although this is nowhere near my personal email, which hovers more around the frightening figure of 4,000/week – I love SpamAssassin.
- Maximum number of comments for any one post is 15, minimum 0 (unsurprisingly).
- 28 post categories.
- Customer Service, SOA & ESB, and Technology are the three categories that have recieved the most interest, according to the Popularity Contest plugin. Maths is apparently the least interesting. Even such a tawdry category as Sex has managed a respectable 13th place, although apparently there is more commonality between the two than you might think anyway.
- Ranked 131,144th on Technorati, with 85 links from 19 blogs.
- Random photo on sidebar selects from 1,135 images.
- My favourite post is Why Trade is Beneficial – The Ebay Way.
[...] As I’ve mentioned before, I have a huge spam problem on my personal e-mail account (~4,000/week) – due to a combination of bad luck and some foolish naivety at a few points – and so I have a fairly highly-tuned SpamAssassin installation running at home, with plenty of custom rules and plugins. I’ve seen a rising amount of image spam on it, so I decided to give FuzzyOcr, a plugin for SpamAssassin, a try. So far, the results are pretty impressive. FuzzyOcr uses the open-source gocr program as the engine, and ties it to with SpamAssassin and some logic. The OCR is fairly CPU-intensive, so unlike most SpamAssassin plugins, it only kicks in if the message is otherwise going to be below a certain scoring threshold. So far it has roughly halved the volume of spam that slips through into my inbox (previously ~40-50/day), which is a welcome improvement. [...]
Andrew Ferrier’s Blog » Blog Archive » Spam and OCR
10 Nov 06 at 14:11:04