Four months ago, we did a simultaneous exercise with the experiment conducted by McAfee. To this date, we are still monitoring the results of this exercise ~ our own exercise that is.
We checked the pages of those who participated in the McAfee exercises, and we noted the amount of spams their mailboxes have collected.
We don’t know how these guys did it, but from what we read in their blogs, one guy has reported receiving something like 694 emails in one day! See http://www.mcafeespamexperiment.com/au/?p=70
Our own experiment did not yield the kind of outcome we were hoping to achieve. We know that there is so much spamming going around. It is possible that we took a different route. Or, perhaps - knowing our own objective - we were only too extra careful that we were already filtering out the websites we were visiting and submitting our email address to.
So far, after four months, we had received only one spam in the new mailbox we opened specifically for that purpose. Not that we want to receive spam in our mailbox, but we thought we close this matter with this report. #
