August 14 2008 Thursday
74% of all email in Q2 2008 was spam
I'm surprise it is this low ;)
From ZDNet: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14827&tag=nl.e019
The actual report is available here: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/08-13-2008/0004867069&EDATE=
From ZDNet: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14827&tag=nl.e019
The actual report is available here: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/08-13-2008/0004867069&EDATE=
We are seeing about 90% across all of our customer base using SpamSentinel.
The spam percentages do not fully convey the amount of spam. For example, when spam = good mail, the percentage is 50%. To go from 50% to 90% "seems" it only went up 40%, but in reality it went up 8 times!
I prefer a ratio of spam to good mail. The 90% number actually means a 9:1 ratio of spam:good mail. 74% is actually 3:1.
The ration makes it clearer. When spam is 99%, it really means a ratio of 99 spam messages to 1 good message !!!