According to a prediction by Spamhaus, global spam reach 95% of all email traffic by the end of 2006.
Spam currently accounts for 75% of all email traffic arriving at most ISPs mail servers. Spam typically originates from two sources, either sent directly by the spammer, or sent by the spammer through a hijacked computer (proxy). Using either method it's easy for anti-spam systems to deal with.
Unfortunately over the last few months the source of spam has been changing. More spam is coming directly from the major mail relays of other ISPs. AOL is reporting that 90% of spam that hits its servers comes directly from other ISP mail relays.
Spammers have been releasing variations of stealth proxy spam software ("spamware") to take control of private computers, usually those on the world's broadband networks, and to use them to send out spam for pornography or illegal drugs from without the PC owner's knowledge or permission.
Spamhaus is currently advising mail services to take protective measures to avoid or lessen the problem. Throttling the outgoing mail from IPs of broadband customers, Separate the incoming and outgoing SMTP servers, Mandate email authentication (SMTP-AUTH) for all customers are all different ways that can solve various spam proxy problems according to Spamhaus.
View: The History Of E-Mail Spam
Spam currently accounts for 75% of all email traffic arriving at most ISPs mail servers. Spam typically originates from two sources, either sent directly by the spammer, or sent by the spammer through a hijacked computer (proxy). Using either method it's easy for anti-spam systems to deal with.
Unfortunately over the last few months the source of spam has been changing. More spam is coming directly from the major mail relays of other ISPs. AOL is reporting that 90% of spam that hits its servers comes directly from other ISP mail relays.
Spammers have been releasing variations of stealth proxy spam software ("spamware") to take control of private computers, usually those on the world's broadband networks, and to use them to send out spam for pornography or illegal drugs from without the PC owner's knowledge or permission.
Spamhaus is currently advising mail services to take protective measures to avoid or lessen the problem. Throttling the outgoing mail from IPs of broadband customers, Separate the incoming and outgoing SMTP servers, Mandate email authentication (SMTP-AUTH) for all customers are all different ways that can solve various spam proxy problems according to Spamhaus.
View: The History Of E-Mail Spam
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My main account (btYahoo!) which i use with outlook2003, i get no spam. I use this account daily and i have been though more than one email address and have learnt where to use a spam address rather than my real address. It just requires 2 email addresses and some common sense.
Does that 95% also include newsletters from places like /. and amazon which i like to get and do read.
As someone who gets paid to set up open source spam filtering solutions, I want to give a great big THANK YOU to all the Windows users out there. I'm sorry for putting the Windows platform down in my previous posts. Windows puts money in my pockets, so I apologize for all the bad things I said about Windows in the past.
SVT
i feel so left out lol
// Weird stuff: my Gmail account didn't receive any spam, until they created that spam box. Then I got huge ammounts of spam, and now... rarely. Weird.
I say, who votes for death penalty to spammers?
I guess, it depends a lot on browsing habits.
If you use a email client such as Thunderbird or Outlook 2003 then it will get filtered. If you read it in your browser then it's annoying.
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