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Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious


From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:55:01 +0000 (GMT)

Yes, I'm currently seeing about 98% spam. At what percentage does email 
become useless? 

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Robert Portvliet wrote:

It's sad that we are unable to even make a dent in solving this problem.
Added together, the bandwidth & capacity wasted by all this junk must be
staggering.



On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:

On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 05:57:45PM -0500, Robert Portvliet wrote:
According the Websense Security Labs 'state of Internet security report'
95%
of User Generated Content is spam or malicious & 85% of all email is
spam.

85% is way too low.  Plausible numbers are in the 96-98% range.

---Rsk
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