Apr 11 2008
How do we Reduce Spam Sent
The “CAN-Spam” Act of 2003 (dubbed the “Yes, You Can Spam” Act by some) was supposed to reduce spam.
The arrest of Robert Alan Soloway in May 2007, a 27-year-old man described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers and called by some the “King of Spam”, had the federal authorities predicting that computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail.
However we have been seeing an increase (below numbers from Wikipedia):
2005 - (June) 30 billion per day
2006 - (June) 55 billion per day
2007 - (February) 90 billion per day
2007 - (June) 100 billion per day
It feels like we are just going to continue to see this increase year after year.
On the other side, the filtering technology is getting better and better so users who get set-up on a good spam filter (insert plug for our Total Mail Defense product here, LOL) can expect to not even notice this increase.
Original article on IDT Blog about email spam
