News: Report: Spam claims two-thirds of e-mail:
"MessageLabs, an e-mail filtering company, claims 65 percent of e-mail sent to its users is spam, according to data it collected during December and released Monday.

While the statistics point to a dramatic upswing in the ratio of spam to legitimate e-mails--up from 43.7 percent in September, 50.5 percent in October and 55.1 percent in November--the figures only take into account e-mails being sent to MessageLabs' clients, many of whom signed up to the service because they received a high volume of spam, MessageLabs Australia's technical director David Banes conceded.… "

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