More than 95% of e-mail is ‘junk’

July 27th, 2006

A worrying statistic.

More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or viruses, report mail monitoring firms.

Analysis of the contents of millions of e-mails has revealed that less than 4% is legitimate traffic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5219554.stm

One Response to “More than 95% of e-mail is ‘junk’”

  1. 1 David Barker
    August 3rd, 2006 at 3:30 pm

    Just think how much quieter our mail servers would be with only 4% of the traffic!!