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July 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)
SPAM is getting worse
Remember when Bill Gates said in January 2004 that the SPAM problem would be solved by 2006? Actual statistics suggest that 86% of all email is now SPAM and I have to say that personally I find its gotten much worse. I confirmed this sentiment with a number of people informally at OSCON as we all fought through our email sea of crap.
I have 4 email addresses of which only one has ever been truly published. That account (on Gmail) gets about 300 SPAM per day and I am finding more sneaking through the Google filter every day . My main business email addresses are filtered very heavily and receive about 300/day as well with about 10-15% sneaking past the filters--both server and client side.
I just wanted to remind everyone that problems don't go away just because Microsoft wants them to. (I am feeling very vindictive today.)
Posted by Dave Rosenberg on July 30, 2006 02:17 PM
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