Oh, really? I haven't seen a decrease.
Oh OK...1.6 billion a day is fine.
There is as much spam as ever, but unless spammers are getting results they won't continue forever. If everybody deleted their spam, the spamming would cease.
Is this related to a drop in number of users perhaps?
The only reason I deal with these a$$holes is because I travel a LOT, and they have local dial-up numbers all over the world.
Hmmm. I got 500 million more messages per day in November than October. I wonder if that's a coincidence.
Spam is annoying, but on the whole I prefer not to have my internet provider doing the filtering. The result seems to be that some of my correspondents can't get through to me.
This has been the case with a beta testing list I belong to, and also a financial adviser who sends out emails. In both cases they send out a lot of messages and evidently get filtered out.
I use SpamPal to do my own filtering. It works right about 95% of the time, but I look through the day's spam before discarding it since sometimes someone who isn't yet on my white list gets thrown in the discard.
Yea, well, the email the AOL users want is not getting through either. Emails to people with AOL addresses routinely get kicked back.
And the ebay email system sure does not like it.