This just in from HowToWeb: a stunning 95 percent of all e-mail is unsolicited commercial e-mail.
This Washington Post article from May details an anti-spamming effort that went awry when spammers retaliated.
Spam counts have continued to rise as more e-mail administrators choose passive management approaches such as filtering. On my e-mail servers, the most obvious spam is scanned, identified and tagged by programs such as SpamAssassin. My servers then send the high-scoring spam directly to the trash without delivering these messages to an inbox. This process eliminates most of my incoming spam.
Because I have many international students, I don’t filter messages by top-level domain, language or code pages. But many companies do use these criteria as filters. A mainland company that has no Korean customers or suppliers can afford to dump any e-mail message from South Korea. That country has been a popular mailing point for spam messages, as it offers a high concentration of broadband subscribers.
I still agree with Joi Ito’s statement from three years ago - e-mail is broken.
Tags: email, Korea, malware, network, security, server, spam, USA, usability
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