More than 95% of e-mail is 'junk'

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5213470.stm

More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or
viruses, report mail monitoring firms.

Analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less
than 4% is legitimate traffic.

Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating on
hijacked home computers.

E-mail security firm Return Path said 99% of the computers it monitors
that send mail have been taken over by spammers or virus writers.

Return Path reached its estimate by calculating a "reputation score"
for the 20 million net addresses of those machines.

The score was derived by analyzing the e-mail traffic sent through
those addresses, the number of complaints filed about that address,
and if the owner of that address responds to complaints.

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-JP<who wonders what catagory his messages fall into>
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