By Latest Count, 95% of Email Is Spam 198
An anonymous reader writes "The European Network and Information Security Agency released its new spam report, which looks at spam budgets, the impact of spam and spam management. Less than 5% of all email traffic is delivered to mailboxes. This means the main bulk of mails, 95%, is spam. This is a very minor change, from 6%, in earlier ENISA reports. Over 25% of respondents had spam accounting for more than 10% of help desk calls. The survey targeted email service providers of different types and sizes, and received replies from 100 respondents from 30 different countries."
95% of slashdoters don't RTFA (Score:1, Informative)
Re:I'm surprised it's that low (Score:1, Informative)
According to the respondents in the report, less than 75% of the ISPs even forbid spamming in their Terms & Conditions. Dismaying news, IMO.
Re:Logic? (Score:4, Informative)
your internet provider or mail server administrator is likely blocking more (a LOT more) spam than you see come through to your "spam folder".
95% spam is a reasonable estimate for a report coming out of the EU, i think; and is pretty close to what i see here in the US (about 9 of every 10 inbound messages to our domains is either blocked at time of delivery or filtered later on).
Re:My spam count has gone down lately (Score:2, Informative)
check to see if your provider is using SPF... If so, they end up blocking domains that does not have one or is spoofing a domain that does have SPF setup. This helps significantly to reduce the amount of junkmail.
Re:Logic? (Score:5, Informative)
Survey only took place in Europe and apparently one company in the US.
In short, this is a waste of someone's money.
Only, huh?
27 nations and a population of >500 million forming the largest economic block in the world...
Re:My spam count has gone down lately (Score:1, Informative)
Got a letter from my ISP recently (the most important ISP in the country) telling something like: "All outgoing connection to ports other than 80 and 443 and xxx and yyy are now blocked by default, if you have a legitimate need to access these ports please log on to: .... and change your settings".
This is insta-death for a great many spam bot/relays.
Boom. Game over.