Spam Hits 95% of All Email. Users frown.
October 18, 2007 – 8:57 pmI remember the good ol’ days in the mid 90′s of very little Spam content. Now it is up to 95% of all email.
Commtouch published its Email Threats Trend Report 2007. The report is based on the automated analysis of billions of email messages weekly. The report examines the advent of new types of attachment spam such as PDF spam and Excel spam while decreasing the usage of image spam, as well as the growing threat of innocent appearing spam containing links to malicious web sites. [via]
I get 50+ Spam emails a day to my Yahoo email account, which I’ve had for about 10 years. Fortunately, the Yahoo junk mail filter is pretty good, but no filter is perfect. It issues probably about a 1% false reading and misses a few emails here and there, but definitely worth the hassle to fine tune. I’m not sure of the algorithm it uses, but since most of the people I communicate with on a normal basis are in my address book, that seems to help.
For my work email address, which I’ve had for about 3 years, I get 15+ Spam emails a day.
I have moved most of my email newsletters to RSS feeds, which puts some of the control back in my hands, but I’m just as frustrated as the next person with Spam.
There are several different things in the works to cut down on the number of bulk emails, both on the technical and legal fronts, but no solution is going to be effectively implemented in the short term.
So, far now, I’ll continue to weed out the junk from the good stuff, and as Jeremy points out, get a good laugh every now and then from some Spam email subject lines.
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