After Respite, Spam Now 94% of All Email

Nov. crackdown cut junk by 70%, but mailers have recovered

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 31, 2009 12:16 PM CDT

(Newser) – Like it or not, spam has made a comeback. Unwanted junk email is back up to 94% of all traffic, according to Google’s anti-spam Postini division. Spammers suffered a setback in November, when web backbone providers banned McColo Corp., a server spammers used to... Read full story »

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