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Spam Back Up To 94% of All Email
Thelasko writes "A NYTimes blog reports that the volume of spam has returned to its previous levels, as seen before the McColo was shut down. Here is the report on Google's enterprise blog. Adam Swidler, of Postini Services, says: 'It's unlikely we are going to see another event like McColo where taking out an ISP has that kind of dramatic impact on global spam volumes,' because the spammers' control systems are evolving. This is sad news for us all."
The article seems to be counting whole e-mails, but what about bytes? And what percent of global IP traffic is E-mail? I'm just wanting to get a feel for how much spam is clogging the backbones and not just how much it is clogging the mailservers.
That you aren't actually receiving the spam doesn't mean it's not still being sent to your address. The fact that your ISP or Google or anyone else is having to spend a huge amount of resources to combat all this spam is the problem.
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Also, let's say that your ISP does catch all the spam. What valid emails aren't you getting because of false positives? What valid emails are you sending that the recipients aren't getting because of false positives?
Not getting spam is only half the battle. Getting all valid email is the other half. Winning the war decisively is an additional problem on top of that.
Sad thing is, our users have grown accoustom to the hard work we do to prevent spam that when they get a single spam message in their inbox, they pick up the phone and call the help desk, who then create a ticket and forward it to me so that I can "check the spam filter to make sure its working".
Seriously? Fuck you... press the delete button and get on with your life. How about I just create a catchall and forward it to your inbox - then you can see all the crap we're blocking first hand.