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AOL Cans 1 billion Spams In One Day

Posted by timothy on from the high-water-mark-for-low-water-marks dept.

linuxwrangler writes "AOL announced today that its spam filters hit the 1 billion reject mark for a 24 hour period. This is an average of 28 rejects per day per member. In addition, AOL spam engineers say they receive 5.5 million spam submissions each day from AOL users. Other reports here(1) and here(2)."

3 of 405 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Failure rate? by trmj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a convenient way to show certain posters at -3
    Fair enough.

    Personally, I leave what I don't see up to the moderators.

    I assign friends as people I agree with that are insightful and bring a new angle onto the subject that I didn't see before.

    I assign foes as people I don't agree with, yet are insightful and bring a new angle onto the subject that I didn't see before.

    Both are shown at +3.

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  2. 1 billion reject(s) . . . by pariahdecss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Geez I did not know that AOL's subscriber base was that large . . .although I prefer calling them "myopic pond scum" myself . . ."rejects" is too nondescript

  3. "Canning" spam by jesser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Isn't canning part of the process of making SPAM(tm)?

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