Email spam on the decline?
A couple of days ago, Wired published a story indicating that email spam might be on the decrease.According to Brad Taylor, software engineer at Google, Gmail is seeing a flattening and perhaps even a declining trend in the amount of incoming spam to their servers.
While this might be true for Gmail, it's definitely not the case in the email domains I administer.
Our anti-spam measures, for three domains, has stopped about 75% of all inbound emails. The statistics above are based on all inbound email so far this year, and it clearly indicates that in our case email spam doesn't seem to be going anywhere but up. In reality, compared to others 75% is pretty low. If you compare it to the general statistics provided by Softscan we are pretty lucky.
The fact still remains that we are seeing over two times as much spam in November compared to January, and I can hardly find a way to call that a flattening or declining.
Perhaps spammers are not targeting Gmail in the same way as before, but that only indicates that Gmail not be the best metric when analyzing spam trends.
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Published November 30, 2007 11:22
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