Forty Percent of All Email is Spam

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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[l33t j03]

40 percent of Slashdot is spam. The other 59% is worthless, then there is the 1% of interesting stuff at -1.

90+ % when you have a hotmail account

[mAIsE]

is it just me or is hotmail 99.99% spam these days ?

Amazing Coincidences

[de_boer_man]

Amazingly, Hormel's Spam Lunchmeat is 40% jellied fat.