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AOL Blocks 2 Billion Spam/Day

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-flat-out-scary dept.

T_moz writes "According to this article AOL has blocked over two billion (2000000000) SPAM emails in one day!" This figure is 70-80% of all mail incoming to AOL users. Utterly insane. Unfortunately, all this blocking means spammers will just send more mail to make up for it until a real solution is found.

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  1. Stop Blocking Spam? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe the solution is to stop blocking spam. If users received the 4,000 emails of spam a day that they would get w/o spam blocking instead of 40, it would turn an annoyance into something that is totally unacceptable. It would be interesting to see what the public would do in such a situation. In other words, that kind of dissatisfaction might force true change.

  2. Rate of growth by megazoid81 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    According to this post on March 5, AOL canned a billion spams. Today, two months later, they canned two billion. In four more months, they will have canned more than one spam for every single human being on earth. Is that fascinating or just a little fucked up?

  3. Re:Want a solution? by Dimensio · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Simple.
    If it's confirmed opt-in, it's not spam. If a company claims to be running confirmed opt-in, then give them the benefit of the doubt unless a multitude of complaints come in from multiple sources. Otherwise, off with their heads (or, preferrably, flay them alive, soak them in brine and leave them crucified in a field in Kansas).

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    STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!