News - 89 percent of all emails in 2010 were spam

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Just one of a number of intriguing stats in a round-up of the 2010 Internet by the numbers.

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[aidanjt]

In my case, it's more like 95%. Spam is killing email as a medium. The government is more obsessed about chasing after 'file sharers', tackling brazen fraud is a mere afterthought.

[miniyazz]

What do you suggest the government do about it?

[aidanjt]

What do you suggest the government do about it?

Prosecute for fraud as they're suppose to do. Prod the governments of countries which produce most of the spam. Come up with an international agreement with other governments to tackle spam. Do their damn job?

They seem well able to do these things for big content corporations. Yet when it comes to actual wealth destructive fraud, they suddenly can't do anything?

[miniyazz]

Prosecuting for fraud is tricky when (as seems likely) the companies involved will have minimal UK presence, operating from minimally-regulated countries. Those same countries will likely provide minimal cooperation with our government. I very much doubt they're able to do anything useful.

[aidanjt]

And tackling unauthorised file sharing is easy? I'd say not. The government has even passed all manner of unethical bills attempting to tackle it. As I said, they could easily apply diplomatic pressure on governments not doing anything about fraud and spam. The only serious difference is the incentive. Fraudsters like these generally only rob individuals who don't pass brown envelops under the table. File sharers act as competition against big media's government granted monopoly on content distribution, which means less cash for big media to splash around, in the right hands.

[Jay]

as a company we spend a lot of cash just filtering spam. If people used SPF records it would cut quite a bit of this junk out