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You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam

Posted by michael on from the bit-bucket dept.

yohaas writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that AOL blocked more than 500 billion spam messages for its users in 2003. That comes to 40 messages a day per user. The company regularly blocks 75-80% of all incoming mail as spam! The article also lists the top 10 spam phrases for the year, including such come-ons as: 'Viagra online', 'Online pharmacy', 'Get out of debt' and 'Get bigger'."

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  1. Their mail server went down again, that's all by corebreech · · Score: 5, Funny

    AOL has been losing email for over a decade now.

    (is this another dupe story?)

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  2. Outbound by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if they'd only block going outbound too!

  3. It would be WAY too easy . . . by dgrgich · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . to make a crack about the Post Office blocking the shipment of trillions of AOL CDs. I prefer to work for my karma. :)

  4. They also block real mail by wol · · Score: 5, Funny

    They may block a lot of garbage, but they also refuse to admit that my email to my mother is not spam.

    Maybe there is something she's not telling me.

    Mom!

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    1. Re:They also block real mail by NoData · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe if you stopped sending your mother,
      "Mom! The all new penis patch will get you bigger and harder than ever!" your email would go through.

  5. stop spam now - top 10 phrases by stonebeat.org · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the phrase "stop spam now" should be added to the list of top 10 spam phrases.
    seriously, I get 5-10 spam email / day telling me how to stop receiving spam emails.

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  6. I am so sick of spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It has nothing to offer me since I work from home using my degree (obtained online) in pharmaceuticals. I have a huge cock, am quite rich, get my insurance for free and own my home outright. I do have to use viagra occasionally because it is sometimes hard to get it up for some good Oprah XXX action but I can get it through the pharmacy which I run online.

  7. Re:Imagine. by Gzip+Christ · · Score: 3, Funny
    It's been suggested in nanae that as a brutal display of the efficacy of spam-fighting and, most importantly, blocklisting, major ISPs all simultaenously turn off their spam defenses for a day to show users just how much UCE spew is clogging the internet every day.
    So let me get this straight... you're asking us to imagine a beowulf cluster of spam?
  8. And this is the reason... by FearUncertaintyDoubt · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...why AOL users have such small penises and breasts.

  9. Re:Imagine. by dekashizl · · Score: 5, Funny

    Though it makes my head hurt to see Jerry Stiller and Snoop Dogg in a commercial together. That's just wrong on so many diffferent levels...

    Now wait just one minnizle.