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An Ipsos-Reid survey concluded that “the average weekly number of spam e-mail messages dropped from 68 per cent in 2003 to 49 per cent last year”. I'd have to dissagree because we do not see that sort of pattern whatsoever at SimpleFilter. Here is an article and a post on the Ipsos-Reid survey.  

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From TechWeb News I think: By 2008, the Framingham, Mass.-based research firm forecasted, worldwide revenues of anti-spam solutions — software and hosted services — will run to $1.7 billion. In 2003, the last full year for which hard numbers are available, anti-spam spending was only $300 million.

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Well, this certainly should be an eye opener to any spam solutions that delete email. From ZDNet: “We were pretty surprised this morning to find that all of the email which arrived overnight had been deleted,” wrote Jeremy Whiteley, chief executive officer at Promarketing Gear. “Even more troubling was the fact that, according to GFI's […]

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From TechWeb: Spam will cost the world $50 billion in lost productivity and other expenses a research firm said Wednesday, with more than a third of that — $17 billion — wasted by U.S. firms. According to San Francisco-based Ferris Research's newest report, spam's cost is primarily in lost worker time as employees filter spam, […]

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ISP typically take the way too aggressive approach as Verizon seems to be doing. This certainly doesn't surprise me. From this article: Since mid-December, users have complained on Internet message boards and to Verizon customer service centers that they are not receiving legitimate inbound e-mail from Europe and Asia. Verizon, they say, has taken the […]

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Missed this over the holidays: Judge Awards ISP $1 Billion in damages (source Network World Fusion)

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I've always considered challenge / response spam. I typically turf any challenge's I get and give up trying to send that person an email. While so-called challenge-response anti-spam systems have grown in popularity, they still seem like the wrong approach to spam. If you think about it, they basically assume all mail is spam, until […]

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Over at SimpleFilter we've been under a massive spam attack for the past day or so. In a way I'm happy that we have the spammers thinking they are getting ahead of the game but really all it managed to do was take some of the stuff that Brent and I had on the backburner […]

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This news is a bit old because I haven't been following the spam industry as close as I normally do lately. Anyway, it seems Mail Cruncher's internation team has taken 3 years to come up with what looks very similar to techniques already in use for some time to fight spam. To base their whole offering […]

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It bothers me when I read entries like this one from Doc Searls about spam problems. There are solutions out there that work including SimpleFilter. Spam has not been an issue in my life for quiet some time thanks to SimpleFilter so its tough when I hear people still having issues out there but doing […]

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