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Are Spammers Giving Up?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-in-our-dreams dept.

sfjoe writes "Are spammers giving up the game? Google seems to think so. In an article at Wired, Google, '... says that spam attempts, as a percentage of e-mail that's transmitted through its Gmail system, have waned over the last year'. They think their own filters are so good that spammers aren't even trying anymore. 'Other experts disagree with Google, pointing out that overall spam attempts continue to rise. By most estimates, tens of billions of spam messages are sent daily. Yet for most users, the amount of spam arriving in their inboxes has remained relatively flat, thanks to improved filtering.'"

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  1. Not giving up, just more Macs and Linux by WillAffleckUW · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As the Windows world shrinks due to people not wanting to use Vista, the opportunity to spread virii decreases exponentially.

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  2. Give Up??? by pedropolis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but i has euge c0ck 4 u!!! grow big!!!