I don't think I've posted on this before, but I now have a new way to track the amount of Spam email I receive on a monthly basis.  You see, I now filter all of my mail through Gmail.  I forward my regular email account to Gmail, and then use my POP3 client to check my mail there.  This way Gmail filters out most of the Spam for me, and I never have to see it. When I first started doing this, I would go in every few days and delete the email from the Spam folder, basically because I hated looking at that huge number.  Then I noticed one day that Gmail automatically deletes anything in that folder that is over 30 days old.  An idea stuck me.  What if I just leave that folder alone.  Then I would have a perpetual count of how much Spam I had received in the last 30 days.  When I first started doing this, the number was around 2800.  It slowly crept up to 3000.  Well, I checked today, and it's 4697.  Wow.  At first, I was tempted to be angry about that general volume of Spam, since you and I all pay for that at least in the form of bandwidth charges.  But then I realized something.  That number is a beautiful representation of the wasted time and effort of the Spammers.  I know, I'm really reaching for a bright side here.  But hey, it's the only one I can find.