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

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

My sense is that SPAM filtering is ghettoizing, i.e. there's a very
small community of extraordinarily miserable people whose job it now
is to deal with SPAM for the rest of their users.  They've been so
successful, even at 98%, that now users have NO tolerance for SPAM.
In other words, the SPAM war appears to be won, nobody seems to know
it's still being fought.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> 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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