On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:09:58PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
is forged, I don't believe (again from personal experience), that 50% of all
email is spam.
That completely depends on the use of email.
I find 5-15 spam mails in my mailbox every day, which is significantly
less than 10% of my email traffic (even without the asrg list).
On the other hand, I know some people who rarely use e-mail, who
don't subscribe to mailing lists, don't use e-mail for professional
just for private purposes. Their main use of the internet is
webbrowsing. Since they are not experienced and not security aware,
they enter their e-mail address just on every web form that asks
to do so. They receive tons of spam and very few
non-spam. Significantly more than 90% of their incoming mail is spam.
Some of them even have capitulated and don't open their mailbox
anymore.
Another question is: How do you count the fraction of spam? Number
of mails or content size?
The spam messages I do receive are getting bigger and bigger. Lot's of
spam messages come with large pictures, powerpoint presentations,
PDF or Word documents. For someone who usually receives just a few simple
text messages from friends, a single spam message of that sort
could be 98% of the monthly mail traffic.
Hadmut
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