Comparison site uSwitch has today urged ISP's, mobile operators and the government to put more effort into combating SPAM (junk e-mail); though they do not appear to suggest any specific measures.

It's claimed that Internet users now receive roughly 82 million junk e-mails per day, which is an increase of 14 million over 15 months ago. Mobile phone users have also been hit hard by 1 million daily junk texts. Overall nearly 90% of people now receive junk compared with 85% in 2006:


Unfortunately 80% of SPAM comes from gangs operating outside of the UK, notes the 'Easier Finance' article, making it hard to stop. Though the UK's incredibly poor and ill conceived anti-spam rules do little to prevent it here; in fact hardly anybody has faced prosecution.

Certainly UK ISP's should be offering the OPTION (since the technology can erase legitimate mail too) of anti-spam filters included with all their packages, although outside of that there's not a lot they can do. SPAM works because it manipulates an already flawed system and that won't stop without a more fundamental re-think.