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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. AAAAAHHHHHH!! For crying out loud!!! by Moderation+abuser · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Get Vipul's Razor[1], Pyzor[2] or DCC[3]. *They actually work*.

    Done! Finished! No more spam!. Spammers are no more! And stop whining about bloody getting spam for Christ's sake!

    [1] http://razor.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.cloudmark.com/ for Lookout.
    [2] http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/
    [3] http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/

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