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

Re:Why do we fight this at the end?

[esarjeant]

I think this should go to the next logical level -- email should not be free to send. Just like you need to make a conscious decision to send a letter in the USPS, an email message should require postage.

If someone wants to earnestly contact you, they would be willing to pay 5-10 cents postage to get an email to you. Not only would this virtually eliminate spam, it would drastically abate the casual me-too emails. Some email postage services could run to make a profit while others could allow the users to share in the proceeds.