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Spam Is Still Flowing Into E-Mail Boxes

Posted by TimSlavin at January 6, 2004

"Since President Bush signed the new restrictions into law Dec. 16 and they went into effect Jan. 1, spam-filtering companies and Internet providers report little change in spam patterns, which have relentlessly marched to higher levels over the past two years. Estimates vary, but spam accounts for roughly 60 percent of all e-mail traffic, with costs to fight it exceeding $10 billion a year.

At California-based Postini Inc., which provides e-mail protection and filtering for businesses, spam reached a new high last week, accounting for 84.9 percent of the roughly 1 billion pieces of e-mail it handles each week." From the Washington Post. One interesting fact: AOL blocks 2.4 billion spam emails a day. Wow.

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