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,"

Comments

Offended

[andy666]

As a person who likes to eat spam, I am offended!

IDC reports; Mainframes built everything

[DR SoB]

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=VWP00020 4

What kind of crappy article is this? IDC has an article labelled "40 years of mainframe", and the only OS they mention is s/360? And a quote from this article:

" As it works to raise processor utilization rates to acceptable levels, the mainframe environment has been able to prioritize and balance the workload needs through well-established operational automation and virtualization techniques."

To acceptable levels? You won't find a single OS that is as capable of processor utilization then z/OS.

IDC says SPAM will increase? WOW, what an amazing prediction, do they have Nostradomus working for them or what??

Re:I get tons. 1 in 3 ha!

[canoe_head]

Paul Graham? That's MY name! You Bastard, if it wasn't for him people would actually be able to find my page on google.

But what about PowerPoint Religious Slideshows

[jmlyle]

Oh dear god, if you have never seen one of these, you might be best served by gouging out your eyeballs now, just in case.