According to MessageLabs, Inc – a company that monitors e-mail traffic by checking mails destined to their customers – two-thirds of all the e-mail messages sent last month were spam. About a year ago, spam reached the fifty per-cent mark, which was regarded by some as a "landmark moment.”
Brian Czarny, VP of marketing at MessageLabs, predicts that it will get much worse. By next year, spam might make up ninety per-cent of all e-mail traffic over the web.
Postini Inc., another company that scans their e-mail traffic (some 200 million e-mails per day) “announced similar results at a Congressional hearing on spam held yesterday.”
According to the firm, 83 percent of the e-mails it filtered last month for its mostly U.S.-based clients was spam. That was up from 78 percent in January, when the new anti-spam federal law, the CAN-SPAM Act, took effect.
In short, the CAN-SPAM act is a load of hogwash and spam is going to consume us all until we are nothing but dried husks.
I’ll be in the basement protecting my cache of dried beans, wearing an Army helmet.

















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