Monday, December 1, 2008
Junk E-Mail Falls By Two-Thirds
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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