Good news for all of us who still have to use email: spam rates are dropping! In fact, junk messages now account for just 49.7 percent of all emails.
The latest figure comes from security firm Symantec's June 2015 Intelligence Report, which notes this is the first time in over a decade that the rate has fallen below 50 percent. The last time the company recorded a similar spam rate was back in September 2003, or almost 12 years ago.
More specifically, Symantec saw 704 billion email messages sent in June, of which 353 billion were classified as spam. At one of the peaks of the spam epidemic, in June 2009, 5.7 trillion of the 6.3 trillion messages sent were spam, according to past data from Symantec.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by TheMessageNotTheMessenger on Sunday July 19 2015, @09:23PM
Sometimes, your domain(s) just happen to be the target for the week.
I've managed an e-mail server before. On some weeks the sudden barrage would DOS the server, and then there'd be weeks of calm.
Management wanted us to better predict traffic. I'm not sure that could be done. All I know for sure is that the more domains we'd host mail for, the more spam we could get.
Hello! :D