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Spam: Ninety Percent and Rising?
In an otherwise slow news day, this caught my eye, from an interview with Microsoft's CIO: Q: How about the things we are hearing a lot about--spam and spyware? A: We get a lot of spam. We get 10 million...
March 10, 2007
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In an otherwise slow news day, this caught my eye, from an interview with Microsoft's CIO:
Q: How about the things we are hearing a lot about--spam and spyware?A: We get a lot of spam. We get 10 million e-mails a day coming into Microsoft. We delete more than 9 million of those as spam.
Over 90 percent -- Wow! So I did a quick Google search and found spam numbers, including: - 36 percent in 2002
- And a prediction for 90% this year based on current trends
Well, I couldn't resist, so I pinged the current admin for NWC's spam gateway -- NWC's own technology editor Mike Fratto -- and asked if these percentages sounded right.
His answer: absolutely yes. We're averaging about 85 percent spam on NWC's mail server, as you can see here:
Another NWC contributing editor reported spam percentages at his day job of as high as 93 percnet since last December -- and that's AFTER deleting obvious spam messages (scores of 10 or higher in his spam filter).
Well, at least "adult" spam is decreasing...
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