Mon, Feb 11 2008 18:01 Don

Spammers are winning--and it's not even close

If you spend an inordinate amount of time deleting the spam messages from your in-box, you are not alone.

According to the Web site trustedsource.org, there were a total of 154.3 billion mail messages sent around the world Sunday and 117.4 billion of them were spam. For those of you without a calculator, this means that 76 percent of those e-mail messages were spam. That's slightly below Symantec's recent monthly spam report, which claimed that on average 78.5 percent of e-mail messages are spam. Maybe Sunday was a slow day.

Full story at news.com 

 

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