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Spam Overtaking Personal Email

by Tom Conlon on April 11, 2007 at 09:00 AM


What's that putrid smell, you ask? That, friend, is the mounds and mounds of junk mail piling up all over the Internet. According to a new study by research firm IDC, 2007 is the year when the number of spam emails being sent and received will outnumber legitimate person-to-person (P2P) emails. Two factors are at play:

  1. Image-based spam is becoming increasingly popular with spammers and can more easily dodge junk-mail filters.
  2. P2P email traffic is actually decreasing as instant messaging and Internet phone calling gain more and more acceptance.

To learn more about how you can avoid spam, check out this guide from PCSTATS.

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Tags: email, features, junk mail, JunkMail, spam, spammer, spyware

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