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."

Comments

Re:Right... Get the facts straight

[axxackall]

You all are wrong. 40% of world's email traffic is of USA and 99% of it is spam.

My yahoo, netscape and hotmail accounts are 99% full of junk. But even friends from US corporations complain about the same - their work mailboxes 99% full of junk at periods when a sysadmin switch off a spam filter temporary.

You like the democracy? You've got it. At least you've got what you call a democracy.