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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)."

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  1. n1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n1

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  2. Re:This is the most important story of the year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YHBT YHL HAND

  3. 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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  4. 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

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

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

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  6. It's amazing!! by 0z0*!a · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I jus wondering how many millions people are doing this?? Imagine if spams were missiles.

  7. camelot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    we dine well here in Camelot
    we eat ham and jam and spam a lot!