[IP] Spam on the Rise - No Surprise
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:27:05 -0500
From: jspira@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Spam on the Rise - No Surprise
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Dave, hi
I just did an informal survey to see how much spam E-mail our mail servers
rejected today. Given the CAN-SPAM Act, one would have expected the
quantity of spam E-mail to go down, if just a tad.
As you know, a month ago, we released our report on Spam E-mail and IT
Spending and Productivity (http://www.basex.com/2003poty). We predicted
that the situation will get worse before it gets better. Bob Kahn noted in
the report that the relevancy factor of his mail went from close to 100%
(a while ago), to 50% (recently) to 10% (at present). I wonder what
happens when we reach 1% relevancy.
My own quick study: one month later, our mail servers are rejecting twice
as much spam per user as last month. The average number of pieces of spam
E-mail per user was 198 today - compared with ca. 11 relevant (or non-spam)
E-mails. That is close to 5% relevancy. Fortunately, the systems deployed
on our mail servers catch almost all of it - with mercifully few false
positives.
Cheers.
/s/ Jonathan
Jonathan B. Spira
CEO and Chief Analyst
Basex, Inc.
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