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80% Of Incoming E-mail At Hotmail Is Spam

Posted by timothy on from the conservative-estimates dept.

The Llama King writes: "According to this AP story at The Houston Chronicle, 80 percent of the e-mail that makes its way into Hotmail's user inboxes is spam. And that does not include the UCE caught by Hotmail's filters. This is the first of a three-part series the Associated Press is doing on spam."

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  1. Re:Yay. by ratamacue · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    So, industry self-regulation? Well that doesn't seem to work - and it didn't work with Enron (or WoldCom or Andersen

    We already have laws in place that are quite capable of both preventing and punishing corporate fraud. Moreover, the market is more competent at performing both functions than government could ever be. The government is (once again) blowing things out of proportion in an attempt to gain support for more expensive and more powerful government. And (once again) the vast majority of citizens are buying their propaganda without even questioning it. Read this and you will reconsider your opinion:

    Link

    Perhaps you would be interested to know that the biggest corporate accounting scandal of all is the US federal government. While Enron et all misappropriated revenue by the billions, our federal government does it by the trillions. Can you smell the smokescreen now?

  2. ugghhh by -ryan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Chronicle is the scourage of our city. There must be another paper with a better article.

  3. Does anyone know a spammer? by epugachev · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm curious who the people are who actually send all this spam. Has anyone talked to a spammer, and asked them why they do what they do? Furthermore, what are the demographics of the spamming population--are spammers old, young, people with day jobs looking for extra cash, etc.? What makes a good man turn into such a monster?