What's in a number?
Latest round of spam stats.
According to various reports last month, spam now accounts for 83%, 85%,
91.9% or 95% of all emails received. Regardless of the inconsistencies, the
figures (released by various tech firms, consultancies and analysts) do all
put the total volume of spam at a very high level.
However, now that spam
has reached such levels, one wonders how many users are actually interested
in these statistics any longer - there can be few email users that don't
know the extent of the problem, and the release of such figures seems to be
little more than a monthly round of trivia. One also wonders when ISPs will start
filtering outgoing spam to cut their own costs - this can't be good for their bottom line.
01 October 2007
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