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One Third of Email Now Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nobody-really-knows dept.

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,"

3 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. Lucky them... by sisukapalli1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am tilting the scale the other way... My spam is more like 10 spam 1 normal mail. I guess I don't send so much email -- quite a bit of IM, phone, and the age old, walk to the person :)

    S

  2. That's all? by christurkel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    One of three? Seems awfully low!

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  3. Re:Oh no! by EpsCylonB · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Actually I am really surprised that it is only 1/3. Seems so much higher based on personal experience.