Stat of the Day

I've been having a little problem with spam email at work lately. Not a big problem but a problem nonetheless.

I use my work email address just for work-related activities and then only selectively. For instance, I won't use it for software registration or ordering things for my job since my address could be harvested by spammers. Up until recently I got zero spams at work. My employer's spam filters were working pretty good.

Then I started getting some. It was the usual crap: phony investments, a couple of prescription drug ads. I received enough spam, and the increase was so noticeable, that I contacted the company postmaster, the guy in charge of running our email system. Do you know what he told me?

Eighty percent - eight zero - of the email that is sent here is filtered out as spam or virus-infected. He told me that current estimates are that two-thirds of all email is spam.

I never would have guessed it was that high.
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