Spam a Big Problem (news flash...)

A report by Ipso-Reid and Forge Marketing indicates Canadian net users now get an average of 6,968 spam messages a year. That works out to roughly 20 spam messages per day!

Spam has increased from about 7% of all email in 2001 up to about 60% of email more recently.

A separate study by Commtouch Software Ltd. determined that a large portion of spam fell into a few categories. Drugs, mortgage / finance and pitches for sex related drugs like viagra collectively made up about 50% of all spam.

Anti-spam programs can use data like this to help determine which messages are spam, and which a legitimate.

Users (Canadian and otherwise) looking to stop spam may want to investigate installing an email filter such as SpamButcher.

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