Comments on: X % of email is Spam

X % of email is Spam

Mo Nickels — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:26:34 -0800

85% of all email is spam. 83% of all email is spam. Between 80 and 90% of all email is spam. 80% of all email is spam. 76% of all email is spam. Between 64 and 78% of all email is spam. 64% of all email is spam. 63% of all email is spam. 60% of all email is spam. 52% of all email in 2004 will be spam. 50% of all email is spam. By 2006 98% of all email will be spam.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:35:03 -0800

But the upside is we'll be happily sitting in our mortgaged homes high on prescription drugs stroking our huge penises.

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:37:42 -0800

And dating a lot of "special" people.

By: muppetboy

muppetboy — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:45:30 -0800

102% of all email is spam.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:55:17 -0800

47% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:58:41 -0800

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:01:36 -0800

99% of all Spam is pork. The rest is salt, water, sugar and sodium nitrate.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:01:55 -0800

By 2006, you will be 98% spam.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:06:43 -0800

"In 1977 there were 150 Elvis impersonators. By 1999 there were 35,000. If this rate of growth continues, by the year 2019, more than one third of the world's population will be Elvis impersonators."

By: mary8nne

mary8nne — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:19:23 -0800

ha! you gotta love elvis.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:28:08 -0800

Doesn't the UN have better things to do than to worry about something as simple as an "annoyance"? Well, spam used to be just annoying. In your face pornography in my mailbox offends me, but not near as much spam that isphishing citi/ebay/paypal users.

By: bwg

bwg — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:30:35 -0800

By 2022, Soylent Green is people.

By: jazon

jazon — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:33:27 -0800

When Elvis died he was 76% spam!

By: ed

ed — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 20:47:12 -0800

The spam impersonated email (most of it), which later unleashed a mad army of textual Elvises upon an unsuspecting population. Said Elvises (ranging from 90-90% of all email and, individually, a disappointing 22% of the original King) got doped up on Viagra, had secret crushes, were enlisted for Nigerian scams, and were reminded about mortgage applications they weren't aware of. But that didn't stop their susurrating croons from replacing all known email on the planet by 2006. Nor did it prevent them from sapping up all of the water on the planet (currently two-thirds, by 2006 all oceans drained like Hitler's Mediterranean Sea near the high castle).

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:16:53 -0800

best. thread. ever.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:22:12 -0800

The UN is an organization of fraud and garbage. If it must be funded, better that it be occupied with the trivial than the important.

By: mosch

mosch — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:43:21 -0800

I'm a partner in a commercial spam/virus/email protection service company. I guess that gives me the right to say that in our experience, most clients are between 60% and 99% spam, with the middle of the bell curve being at about 90%. Spam sucks, but I hope it doesn't stop anytime soon.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:40:51 -0800

mosch: die please. kthx. just kidding, yah loveably cynical bastard. I certanly hope spam stops soon. And I have to ask, how much slips by your companies grasp?

By: salmacis

salmacis — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 02:01:59 -0800

Spam is not a trivial problem. Email is one of the most important communications tools we have, and spam is rendering it useless.

By: biffa

biffa — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:00:21 -0800

Will spam ever stop while we have spam protection companies?

By: Bones423

Bones423 — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:10:24 -0800

100% of all spam protection companies suck.

By: klaatu

klaatu — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:31:02 -0800

What always makes my mind boggle is how the spammers convince their clients of the effectiveness of the technique... Who does respond to this stuff? Any stats on that?

By: klaatu

klaatu — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:32:46 -0800

12.5% of capitalism is bluster, 24.7% is downright mendacity, 41.3% is outright theft...

By: dabitch

dabitch — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:35:18 -0800

reklaw, that elvis-quote makes me have civilisation-game flashbacks.....

By: fluffycreature

fluffycreature — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 04:05:01 -0800

More federal funding for penis enlargement and this spam problem will disappear overnight. Does anyone have a link for position papers for Bush and Kerry on this issue?

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 04:24:08 -0800

75% of my phone calls are from phone companies

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:01:00 -0800

In Soviet Russia, 85% of spam is YOU!

By: sfenders

sfenders — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:14:18 -0800

Who does respond to this stuff? Stupid people. It's not like there's a shortage of them, as this Wired article pointed out last year. "There was a picture on the top of the page that said, 'As Seen on TV,' and I guess that made me think it was legit," said a San Diego salesman who ordered two bottles of Pinacle in early July.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:32:55 -0800

On a more serious note, about 40% of the email that makes it to my personal spam filter is spam. So if you surveyed me, I'd tell you that 40% of email is spam. But my ISP blocks untold thousands of spams every week. If you asked them, the number would probably be closer to 95%. It's not at all unusual that the numbers would be so hard to pin down. </serious aside> Every time you masturbate, god kills a spam.

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 06:54:32 -0800

I think we can all agree that it is "way too much". All this effort wasted trying to nail down the exact percentage could be better spent trying to find solutions. Whether it is 90%, 80%, 70%, or even 25%, it's still too damn much.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:10:17 -0800

And how much of your regular mail is advertising and other sundry crap?

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:31:35 -0800

C_D: for me, regular mail is about 30% junk rather than 90%, because junk mailers have to pay, whereas spammers consumes resources that they haven't paid for. Because it's paid for, junk mail helps subsidize the post office; we all benefit from that. By contrast, spammers pay for almost none of the resources they use: only their own connectivity. If junk mailers got the same deal as spammers, we'd all get 400 pounds of junk mail a day and there wouldn't be a tree left standing anywhere.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:36:20 -0800

C-D, I don't get any junk mail. About once every three-four months I get a telemarketeer calling, but my phone# is an office/business line so they shouldn't call at all and hang up when I tell them they've phoned a business.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:37:56 -0800

argh, sorry about messing up your name. Point being, I wish my emailbox was that harass-free.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:00:06 -0800

The only solution I can think of (besides ISP's blocking open proxy'd systems) is to limit the amount of email you can send a month, and charge them per email that goes over. Put the limit at such a large number that most "normal" people won't care, even with listserve's and the like -- maybe 5000 emails/mo.

By: condour75

condour75 — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:12:40 -0800

Speaking of spam and armageddon, has anyone here read "Motel of the Mysteries"? It's David Macaulay, done in 1979. He posits the end of American civilization coming due to a drastic reduction in bulk-class postage, which leaves our cities buried in junk mail. Who knew he'd be right?

By: wendell

wendell — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:49:19 -0800

By 2006, 97% of breakfasts will be "egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam." somebody had to do it... no, come to think of it nobody had to do it

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:21:01 -0800

Bloody Vikings.

By: fuq

fuq — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:56:47 -0800

10.2%!