'Tis the season to send spam
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| In October, 63 billion junk messages were sent daily, on average,
| compared with 31 billion a year ago, according to data from IronPort
| Systems. Another antispam specialist, MessageLabs, reports that 88.7
| percent of all e-mail sent in October was unsolicited. That percentage
| is expected to rise to nearly 90 percent in November and December.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6136901.html
This is costing everyone (server load) and wastes everybody's time, Linux
users included. As usual, Microsoft Windows gets (almost) the whole pie.
Deconstructing a 'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Trojan
http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25954&a=194164&po=4,00.
Maybe the figures are biased. You know, to please Microsoft. [sarcasm /]
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