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Re: stats on spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Jul 8 02:23:15 2002
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 02:22:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: deeann mikula <deeann@telerama.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020707224603.O1720-100000@zaxxon.telerama.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, deeann mikula wrote:
> can anyone point me to any current statistics on the amount of email
> traffic carried on the internet that is actually spam?
The Wall Street Journal has an on-going series about UCE/Spam. Today's
article is about Hotmail. According to the article Hotmail gets
approximately two billion e-mail messages a day, 80% of them are spam.
Hotmail Has Quite a Job to Save
Its E-Mail Empire From Spam
by Lee Gomes
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1026085791622086280,00.html?mod=technology%5Ffeatured%5Fstories%5Fhs
