I Get No Spam

After hearing a couple complaints from friends about the amount of spam they're getting, I decided to take a quick look to see where I stood. At the risk of setting myself up, I should say that I get no spam (channeling John C. Dvorak). Or at least very little--maybe one every other day gets through to my inbox.

I think the trick is just to have multiple levels of filtering. I use a Gmail address for most online transactions (for online transactions that I really don't care about--if I'm doing a one-time registration just to get a trial key, for example--I use my Yahoo address, which is nothing but a spam bucket). My Gmail address gets forwarded to my personal email address (@footle.org), which has SpamAssassin running on the server. If it makes it past SA to Mail.app, it gets inspected by SpamSieve, an awesome Bayesian spam filter for OS X mail clients.

Anyway, my stats for the last 24 hours:

Server-level filters (spam caught):
  SpamAssassin: 281
  Gmail: 32

Client-level filter (spam caught):
  SpamSieve: 17

Spam getting to my inbox: 0
Non-spam messages: 52
False positives: 1 (just Flavorpill, so not a big deal)

(Wow...330 pieces of spam in a single day. That seems way worse than when I last checked.)