[dba-Tech] Spam level

Yep, it certainly has gone down according to this:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/spam_volumes_shrink/

<quote>
Spam levels have dropped massively in recent months, though researchers fear this is 
simply because botnet operators have switched their attention to more lucrative activities.

Junk mail volumes - which reached 90 per cent last summer - are down to 75 per cent this 
summer, net security firm Symantec reports.

The 15 percentage points drop in spam has led to a 60 per cent decrease in total email 
volumes, helping reduce network congestion and server load in the process.

Symantec reports that junk mail volumes that reached a high of 230 billion spam messages 
per day in July 2010, 90 per cent of all email traffic, are down to 39.2 billion messages per 
day, 72.9 per cent of all email.
...
</quote>



On 1 Jul 2011 at 8:32, Gustav Brock wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Here it is as if the spam level has lowered within the last month or
> so. Indeed one stubborn Chinese source which has bothered us for more
> than a year has ceased.
> 
> Anyone else having similar experience?
> 
> /gustav
> 
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