[CC] Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic (fwd)

[Alan Sondheim]

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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:35:31 -0400
From: Jim Reith <reith@RACORES.COM>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Spam hits 36 percent of e-mail traffic

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-955842.html

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In July, according to Brightmail's latest interception figures, unsolicited
bulk e-mail made up a whopping 36 percent of all e-mail traveling over the
Internet, up from 8 percent about a year ago.

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"A year, year-and-a-half ago, spam was an annoyance; now it's a
productivity drain," said Maurene Carson Grey, research director for e-mail
and messaging at Gartner. "A lot of the spam has become quite distasteful,
and it's a drain...not just on bandwidth, but on storage."

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MessageLabs, a U.K. company that offers services to stop viruses and spam,
reports that its customers classify 35 percent to more than 50 percent of
their e-mail traffic as spam.