Junk e-mail, the way most computer users see it, has become more prolific than postal junk mail. It overloads inboxes and consumes valuable hours each day. Every day, e-mail users must weed through appeals to buy everything from phony products and stock offers to drugs and body-part enhancers — not to mention the countless free passes to porn sites. Experts estimate that as much as 60 percent of all e-mail that enters inboxes every day is spam, unsolicited e-mail that targets e-mail addresses randomly created or culled from the Internet and mass-marketing lists. The problem grows worse with each passing month.
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Spam Wars: The Ongoing Battle Against Junk E-Mail
Posted by: Jack M. Germain June 8, 2004 06:32 AMJunk e-mail, the way most computer users see it, has become more prolific than postal junk mail. It overloads inboxes and consumes valuable hours each day. Every day, e-mail users must weed through appeals to buy everything from phony products and stock offers to drugs and body-part enhancers — not to mention the countless free passes to porn sites. Experts estimate that as much as 60 percent of all e-mail that enters inboxes every day is spam, unsolicited e-mail that targets e-mail addresses randomly created or culled from the Internet and mass-marketing lists. The problem grows worse with each passing month.