The Spam Flow Never Quits

Every month I get a report from our anti-spam service, Spam Soap, on the spam e-mail traffic for the previous month.  I thought you might find it interesting to hear the statistics.    For May 2010, the total number of messages that Spam Soap handled on our behalf for all our clients was 1,728,327.    The total number of messages actually allowed through was only 133,473.   If my math is correct, spam accounted for over 92% of the e-mail flow coming to our clients last month!   Unbelievable.

The vast majority of the spam messages were denied delivery outright with only about 10,709 messages quarantined (because Spam Soap couldn't be sure about them).  

So, like the oil flow from the spill in the gulf, the spam e-mail flow just keeps coming and coming and coming.   Fortunately, though, we have the technology to keep our mail systems clear of this garbage.