American Voices

Junk E-Mail Falls By Two-Thirds

December 1, 2008 | ISSUE 44•49

The amount of spam sent and received dropped last week to 60 billion messages a day—a decrease of 66 percent—after a Web hosting company called McColo was cut off from the Internet. What do you think?

  • I hate spam almost as much as I hate my insufficient love muscle.

    Charlie Wellington
    Traffic Cop

  • Are you sure? Because the spam folder in my e-mail account says '(60,000,000,000)' next to it."

    Laurell Huston
    Baker

  • Great, now there's going to be a Cialis salesman with very poor grammar at my door every day.

    David Hamilton
    Systems Analyst

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