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One Third of Email Now Spam
Himanshu writes "The volume of spam received by business has doubled over the last two years and it's going to get worse.
Analysts IDC reckons that spam represented 32 per cent of all email sent on an average day in North America in 2003, doubling from 2001. That figure is less than the 50 per cent or more junk mail statistic commonly cited by email-filtering firms like MessageLabs and Brightmail but it still represents a serious problem,"
One-third of e-mail is spam? But nine out of ten of my e-mails are spam... Nobody loves me. :~(
Then who is getting the other 66.6% of my email?
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spam really needs to catch up. I know that over half the snail-mail I get is junk mail...
... another 2/3 to go then our job is done.
Sanford Wallace
It's about time it started going down.
"After I received 80,730 different emails trying to sell viagra, I started to wonder: How many different ways are there to spell Viagra?"
http://cockeyed.com/lessons/viagra/viagra.html
I think that they goofed. 1/3 of it is virus infected, another 1/3 is spam, and the remaining 1/3 are jokes from people that you barely know that are not that funny.
I get about 2500 spams a week to my work address, and I can't change my work email. It's on my business cards, and as a DB geek they won't get me new ones :(
Because of the extreme amount of spam that I get, my Bayesian spam filters are pretty strict. I lose valid email all the time!!!
Why just this morning, I came in and was going through my spam folder, and found that my good friend Gooshot Moneyface has been trying to get in touch with me! I was wondering why I hadn't heard from her for so long.
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
Funny, here 98% of spam comes FROM our CEO. :)
Deletes every third email. No mess, no fuss.
anyone know how these stats compare with standard mail?
Pretty well. I get nearly 100% spam in my snail mail box. Marked with things like 'Past Due', 'Gomer's Collection Agency', 'We Know Where You Live'. I just chuck it all in the trash.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
And one third of Slashdot posts are First Post
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
One day I'll simply snap and actually contact a spammer with the following order:
From: my@email.com
To: spammer@email.com
Subject: Order req'uest for >X<@n4x and V1agro! fxfj aspll cps
Dea'r Si:rs,
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