Spam Slows AT&T Email

jonerik writes: "MSNBC has this article about AT&T's frustration with the increasing quantity and sophistication of spam traffic. As has been noted here already, much of it these days is originating from Asia and, according to the article, 'now represents 20 percent of all e-mail floating around the Internet.'"

Comments

Spam is destroying the internet

[Master Of Ninja]

I have to say that spam is destroying the internet. I've given up trying to complain to administrators (it takes too much of my time up) so any spam i get i just delete immediately. I have one email address (with spam filters), forward me email to another address with more spam filters before I pick up my mail. This is the state I've got to in just reading my email.

Some spam is also too hard to track down. I wish someone would come up with a system to trash mail with invalid headers (e.g. from somebody@sasd.sdada - I've had stuff like this).

Like I said, spam is destroying the internet - something needs to be done about it. It wastes the time of everyone who gets it (and even spam you can read would be good - no use if it is in an Asian language I don't understand), plus wastes bandwidth.