OT: Spam

[Ken Cole]

Mark,  you are spot on.

All of GE worldwide gets about 3 billion emails per month and only
3.7% are delivered, the rest are trashed.

OK, we are a big company but I think it still puts into perspective
how much crap is out there.

Cheers

Ken

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:
> Simon--er, no...it was Bill Campbell--said:
>>
>> There has been a marked downturn in spam levels over the last
>> month or so.  I haven't seen anything but guesses amongst the
>> anti-spammers as to why this is so.  A few of the major botnets
>> have been shut down for a while.
>
> The article CNN did on this downturn said that the major botnets were -up-
> yet, and that wasn't actually the reason--nobody actually knows what the
> reason is.  One theory is that spammers are regrouping for a newer round.
>
> Personally, I'd trust the anti-spam site mailing lists more than CNN's
> reporting, though.  They reported on the flooding in Australia, and I
> pointed my friend in Brisbane at the article, at which point he said that
> of the ten photos in the slideshow for the article, only two were recent,
> the rest were old, and one was at least five years old, and was a stock
> photo available through Getty Images.  Great journalism, there!  :)
>
> mark->
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