Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November

gregleimbeck writes "Spam volume soared another 35% in November, an e-mail security vendor said Thursday, and the month saw spam tactics that reduced the efficiency of traditional anti-spam filters. 'There's been a huge increase in spam volume,' says David Mayer, a product manager at IronPort Systems, 'from 31 billion spams a day on average in October 2005 to 63 billion in October 2006. But in November, we saw two surges that averaged 85 billion messages a day, one from Nov. 13 to 22, the other from Nov. 26 to 28.'"

Comments

Bandwidth

[tef]

If for example each spam message was around 1k of info, that's on average 63 tera bytes of info! Using the new Seimans 107gb speed record connection, that would take almost 10 minutes to transfer all that spam! I just wonder how much faster the internet would be without spam.