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MessageLabs - May 2003 SPAM Stats

Posted: 01st Jun, 2003 By: MarkJ
Anti-Virus firm MessageLabs has reported that 55% of the total number of e-mails sent in May 2003 were SPAM (junk e-mail), which is 15% up on the previous month (April - 40%):

A recent survey found that it was one of the most irritating aspects of working life in the UK, with spam ranking behind traffic jams and long working hours as causing stress for staff.

The bad news is that the number of unsolicited messages is going up, rather than down. MessageLabs scanned about 134 million e-mails in May. It found that virtually one in every two e-mails was spam.

From October, a European Union directive will make unsolicited e-mails illegal across member states. By October the UK is looking to introduce strict new rules about how personal e-mail details are used to try to curb unwanted and unsolicited e-mail.


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