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December 12, 2007
Spam takes control
It's easy to see why so many of us have started to use our Facebook's e-mails, RSS feeds and aggregators to control our communications.
"Spam now accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all e-mail, with no end in sight.
The numbers come as part of the e-mail security company's annual spam report, in which it analyzed over one billion messages sent to its 50,000 customers. Barracuda says that the percentage of spam increased from 85-90 percent in 2006, and is way up from 5 percent back in 2001. After conducting a poll of 261 business professionals, Barracuda also found that over half—57 percent—consider spam to be the "worst form of junk advertising," almost double that of junk snail mail. Only 12 percent cited telemarketers as the worst."
It must work - however - or people wouldn't invest even a modest amount of time.
Luckily our corporate filters seem to work pretty well. I am willing to bet that I get far more e-mail spam that I get legitimate e-mail. And we won't even talk about the thousands of blog comment spam I get weekly.
Now - why do governments debate ad nauseum giving a single extra statutory holiday a year because of their worries about productivity and seem to never debate criminalizing spam.
Howl!
Stephen
Posted by stephen at December 12, 2007 4:43 PM