Just read an article about the decline in spam. Evidently there has been a drop in it. The last half of 2008 saw it drop from 98.4% to 97%. Incredible! I knew the numbers were high but never thought it was that high.It obviously pays or they wouldn't be sending so much ? the full story is here

Edited April 10, 200917 yr by LivinginKata
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Well I don't hink it's that high. On my server 1 out of 20 emails is legit. Its only about 95%.

97% is such an inflated number.

Edited April 10, 200917 yr by LivinginKata
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Google Mail has a separate spam folder where almost all spam goes (99.99% or better in my case). It retains the spam for a month so the number of spam in the folder can be monitored over time. For a long time the number of spams I got per month were pretty stable around 18,000 but the last month or so it has shot up to 24,000 spam, so I don't quite agree with that.

Amazing how much wasted time and money with spam. Amazing that an international agreement can't be found to outlaw spam and punish spammers hard enough to stop it.

If you have less than 50 email accounts to look after, you should have a look at delegating your email to Google Apps. Basically its just Gmail with your own domain name and account management tools. I put our work email there a couple of years ago. We no longer have the pain of managing our own email server, it is much more reliable than what we could do ourselves, has one of the best spam filters on the planet, encrypted transmission, searchable archive and its free.