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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. I'm a conservative! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, I'm a Republican
    I got a small schling
    I like to bomb niggahs
    and make a lot o' bling

    I got a bunch o' friends
    in high up places
    They helps me get dem
    government graces.

    You think I'm smart
    I just know who's who
    I couldn't run a fruit stand
    without the red white & blue

    I'll drop some crap
    about Jesus the Christ
    You'll buy it all
    and vote for me twice

    'Fact, Jesus is comin'!
    Real soon, now!
    So we gotta prop up Israel
    That ol' sacred cow

    Don't need no history
    Don't need no schoolin'
    I got my ideology
    To keep me a shootin'

    Liberals! Faggots!
    Commies and queers!
    Socialist hippies
    Full o' pussy tears

    Facts? No! Don't need em here!
    We're conservatives! We work on FEAR!
    Don't like what we say?
    Well FUCK YOU, bud!
    We'll shove it down yer throat
    and tell ya it's good!

    Propaganda's m'friend
    But I calls it "fact"
    Even though I don't read
    'Cept for Chick tracts

  2. Smell a dupe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    C'mon fellas, another dupe is in order here...

  3. 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%.

  4. Laws fix everything! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just like those laws against terrorism.

  5. Re:Oh no! The world is coming to an end!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    please email instructions of how to duplicate this post to h8edatslashdot@hotmail.com

    thx

  6. WEBMASTERS by black+people · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Support military action in Iraq by linking to the official Kill Iraq website.

    Link to it in your sigs, too!