clean out my inbox

I’ve been randomly going to a spot in my inbox and deleting spam that the spam filters hadn’t picked up. I used to keep the Yahoo filter off because Thunderbird’s filters were really good. Now that I don’t download my mail, there’s no way to apply the spam filters after the fact, so there was a span of time when it was all going into my inbox. I’m slowly reducing that though. I’m also deleting old mailing list messages I have no interest in reading.

Overall unread messages, from my inbox and personal folders but not counting trash or spam folders, has gone from 5,555 in October to 1,405 today. All while new mail still comes in! Soon it’ll be only three digits!

I think I’ve reached an impasse here for now, where I’m going to have to work harder… It seems that no matter how much I delete, I receive almost the same amount in the same amount of time. shakes fist menacingly But I will prevail! ...one day.

This is my progress:
http://www.bellygraph.com/graph/overview/1974
Some would say that I should be making progress rather than charting progress. Well, yes, you’d be right…

I wish Yahoo had a way to apply the spam filter after the fact… I had it off at one time, and so now I have a bunch of spam sitting in my inbox that I have to go through individually. I’m well past the 5,000 unread messages mark if you count that and mailing list messages I haven’t read yet (which are filtering to different folders, so they’re halfway organized).