Junk E-Mail Falls By Two-Thirds

Monday, December 1, 2008

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?

Charlie Wellington,
Traffic Cop
"I hate spam almost as much as I hate my insufficient love muscle."

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

David Hamilton,
Systems Analyst
"Great, now there's going to be a Cialis salesman with very poor grammar at my door every day."

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