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Spam Increases Make Things Tough For Companies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the to-say-nothing-of-little-old-me dept.

dosten sent us a link to a story running on Cnet about the spam epidemic. My favorite stat is that by 2006, we'll be getting 1400 spam a year. Of course, I already get that every week. Talks about foreign spam relays, block lists, and so on. Decent piece explaining a huge problem that's only getting worse.

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  1. 1400 per YEAR FOOLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Internet researcher Jupiter Media Metrix estimates that consumers will receive about 206 billion junk e-mailings in 2006--an average of 1,400 per person, compared with about 700 per person this year. "

    Since 2006 is a YEAR, not a DAY, dividing gives 1,400 emails per YEAR, or roughly 4 a day! Wow, that's almost what I get now! Funny how that works out. There's a word for the problem Malda has, it is called Innumeracy! (On par with illiteracy :)