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Spam Back Up To 94% of All Email

Posted by kdawson on from the rust-never-sleeps dept.

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."

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  1. Well, we will just have to by microbee · · Score: 5, Funny

    send more _useful_ emails to offset that.

    1. Re:Well, we will just have to by ShadowRangerRIT · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, I have this brand new product that increases the size of a body part which 95% of men would prefer larger. Perhaps I should inform people of it?

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    2. Re:Well, we will just have to by ShadowRangerRIT · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's up to you to guess if the product is to be used by men or women.

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  2. More data please by mdmkolbe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:The enigma is.. by urbanheretic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just because your ISP is filtering the email sent to your inbox, doesn't mean that it's not been sent. Spam messages are congesting the ISP -> ISP links, and that hurts the companies delivering the email services.

  4. Re:Anyone Still Have Spam? by Cube+Steak · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  5. Re:Anyone Still Have Spam? by chromatic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I get no spam.

    I've never had malaria. What's the fuss?

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  6. Re:There is a worse spam mail problem by Dan667 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can go to your post office and request a form to have spam snail mail stopped. There was a story several years ago about a postal working got fired for telling people about the form. I would have given him a raise.

  7. Re:Anyone Still Have Spam? by Paul+Slocum · · Score: 5, Informative

    affect

  8. Re:Anyone Still Have Spam? by nine-times · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  9. Re:Mail servers by binaryspiral · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.