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Forty Percent of All Email is Spam

Posted by michael on from the enlarge-your-make-money-fast-in-nigeria dept.

PCOL writes "There's an interesting article on spam in today's Washington Post which includes an inside look at AOL's spam control center in Northern Virginia. The story reports that roughly 40 percent of all e-mail traffic in the US is now spam, up from 8 percent in late 2001 and nearly doubling in the past six months; that AOL's spam filters now block 1 billion messages a day; and that spam will cost U.S. organizations more than $10 billion this year from lost productivity and the equipment, software and manpower needed to combat the problem."

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  1. Re:Another stat by Didion+Sprague · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Do you mean 'pork shoulder' or 'ham?' As I understand it -- and I've written about real Spam here -- Spam is combination of pork shoulder and ham.

    Are you saying that Spam is 40% combined pork shoulder and ham? If so, then what's the other 60%? Water? Salt?

    Serious question. I'm curious.

    And actually -- back on-topic -- I'm surprised the percentage of spam email is so low. My email is most certainly 90% spam -- possibly 95%.