Dec 7 2006

Net Pollution

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Just wanted to drop some quick stats that I ran across in an article featured on New Scientist about the shocking volume of spam that is perpetuated on the Net.

  • As much as 91% of all email is now spam. - Postini, November 2006
  • Daily spam volume is up by 120% over last 12 months. - Postini, November 2006
  • In October 2006, image spam accounted for 25% of all spam. - IronPort Systems, October 2006
Daily Spam Messages Sent:
October, 2005 October, 2006
31 Billion 61 Billion
- IronPort Systems
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One Response to “Net Pollution”

  1. Seth Tachick says:

    91% of email is spam. This is all getting out of hand. Do some people enjoy sending out spam? Sick punks I say.

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