Spam Levels Lowest Since 2009 104
wiredmikey writes "Following a two-week dramatic decline in spam levels, spam now accounts for 78.6 percent of all email traffic, the lowest rate since March 2009, when the global spam rate was 75.7 percent of all email traffic, according to Symantec's January 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report, released today. The volume of spam in circulation this month was 65.9% lower than for the same period one year ago, in January 2010, when the spam rate was 83.9% of all email traffic."
Re:I dunno, (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, this will make you feel even more inadequate.
I once got a spam telling me that a real cyborg turtle could be mine!
To this day, I'm kicking myself for not taking them up on that offer.
Something doesn't add up. (Score:4, Interesting)
How is 75.7 65.9% _lower_ than 83.9? Or are they saying that total email traffic has dropped by ~60% over the last year, and that 75.7% of current email traffic is only 28.7% of the volume in January 2010?
Or is the lack of caffiene causing my ALU to malfunction?