90% of all e-mail now spam
- By: The Founder [privmsg - website] On 5th Dec 2006 In
Junk emails are still clogging up Inboxes, with spam accounting for 89.73 per cent of all email traffic, new figures claim.
Founders Note:
On a related note, you could even subscribe to a spammed e-mail to RSS feed
- Y! MyWeb
Sounds a little low
Mine seems more like 98%
it's getting ugly
And it's forcing email publishers to either re-think their business models or take steps backwards in their methods. Spam is prolific and it (sadly, amazingly) works. It's effectively destroying a once-powerful communication channel. But it's also revealing email to be a very vulnerable and naive technology.