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BBC on spam

[cornwall]

For those "lucky" enough to live in the UK, a programme on email spam tonight

[bbc.co.uk...]

"The Money Programme also talks to one UK company that is being forced to spend £200,000 every year fighting junk e-Mail and asks why so little is being done to tackle the problem."

I don't suppose anyone here spends that fighting spam?

Apparently 90% worldwide spam comes from 180 people, 40 of whom reside in Boca Raton, Florida (and probably all read these columns)

[Mike12345]

I might watch it, just to see which company is foolish enough to waste that much money on something relativly easy to ignore.

[Eliza_Jane]

If someone wanted to give me all that money each year to fight spam, I'd be happy to press that delete key all day! :)

[rogerd]

It wouldn't surprise me at all if major ISPs or e-mail providers like AOL, Earthlink, etc., spent a large sum annually on spam prevention. I don't have the stat, but didn't AOL recently announce that they had eliminated 4 billion e-mails before they ever got to subscribers?

[Macguru]

Here are good figures :

AOL alone stops 1 billion SPAMS a day, I believe MSN does the same and Yahoo a little less.

Beyond AOL, the volume of spam is reaching crisis levels, industry experts say. The amount has doubled in the past two years to an estimated 7.3 billion spam messages worldwide sent daily, according to market research firm International Data Corp.

[msnbc.com...]