AOL Reports Decline In Spam in the Past Year

is it happening everywhere?

[Rugles]

from: [washingtonpost.com...]

Can anyone here who works for an ISP, or monitors such things, report the same?

I always suspected that eventually email spammers will have less and less success, leading to a large decline in spam.

[Essex_boy]

Seem to be getting less in my hotmail account. One thing I have noticed is that when I change my email address on ebay, I get tons of spam to that address.

Is there a harvester for this kid of thing?

[pendanticist]

The decline referred to here has nothing to do with UCE/SPAMers other than the increased filtering AOL has been doing has met with relative success.

[vkaryl]

What a laugh. Maybe ONLY on AOL. But doesn't matter, AOL is crap, and I'm not going there....

[webnerd]

Yes! There has been a dramatic decrease.
I have multiple email accounts for various websites that I maintain. The only mail I have been receiving lately from from valid website users (clients) and various informational reports that I have requested.
I use to get tons of stuff.
I maintain my own domains and most of the accounts aren't filtered.
Maybe at last the spammers are a thing of the past.
What a wonderful thought.