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10 things you should know about fighting spam
Overview
Understanding a few key facts about how spam fits into the IT landscape will help you marshal the necessary resources to combat it. This list offers a look at a selection of interesting details about spam.
Spam is one of the biggest problems facing e-mail administrators and their users, so it's no surprise that there are a lot of spam-fighting tools out there. But along with those tools, you need to know a few things about spam itself. In an effort to help you 'know the enemy,' IT pro Josh Hoskins collected various facts about spam, such as:
- No one is sure how to combat spam. Microsoft supports an anti-framework technology called Sender ID. Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is gaining popularity among the open source crowd. AOL and Yahoo just announced a pay per e-mail scheme. And Bayesian filters are starting to appear in e-mail clients. Which, if any of these, will be an overall solution to spam is unknown.
- 73 percent of total Internet e-mail is spam. A study conducted by Industry Canada showed that in 2004, 73 percent of all Internet e-mail was spam. This leads to approximately 2.5 Terabytes of spam e-mail being sent every day.
- IM spam (spim) is on the rise. Reports are showing now that one in three IM users have been targeted by IM spam. This new type of advertising went from effectively 0 percent in 2003 to nearly 5 percent of all messages in 2004. You can be sure that if there's money to be made, the increase will continue.
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| Publisher | TechRepublic | File Format | |
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| Date Published | February 2006 | Downloads | 26 |
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