It's official: Spam is a worldwide plague
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
As if the hundreds of unwanted spam messages I get daily weren't enough, this week, email monitoring firm Message Labs announced that over 80 percent of all email received in the US is spam. That's a huge jump from the last measurement, taken a year ago, when spam accounted for almost 50 percent of all email.
"Twelve months ago we were just about to pass that 50 percent mark. No one thought it could keep up that pace of increase, but it has," said Message Labs marketing VP Brian Czarny. "We could see percentages in the upper 90s [within] a year."