Spam’s not that big problem anymore?
A study by Pew Internet & American Life Project reports fewer people see spam as big hassle. Couple that with 37 percent of survey recipients saying they are getting more spam at home and 29 percent say they’ve seen an increase in their work inboxes. Pew researchers cite two main reasons fewer people say that spam is a big problem for them. One, the volume of porn (and related) spam has decreased. And two, “people are becoming more knowledgeable about spam,” the study reports. The study (PDF file) suggests people are also slowly wising up to fight spam, with 71 percent of e-mail users say they use spam filters — up from 65 percent two years ago. That’s a meager 6 percent jump.
Study highlights:
* The percentage of e-mail users who report getting less spam has decreased over the last three years to just 10 percent of e-mail users.
* The percentage of users who say spam is not at all a problem has risen from 16 to 28 percent.
* 52 percent of e-mail users report having received pornographic spam, down from 63 percent two years ago and 71 percent three years ago.
* Fewer women than men say they received spam with adult content (46 vs. 58 percent).
* 55 percent say spam has made them less trusting of e-mail in general.
The survey was conducted over the telephone with 1492 U.S. adult Internet users participating. The study was conducted from February 15 to March 7, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. I think there may be really something about it – I also hate spam of course, but it’s not that big issue anymore because of Gmail’s wonderful spam filtering. Other external application for recognizing spam are also still improving, so spammers have to come with new, better methods to beat all this protection…
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People get used to this stuff I suppose and filters usually pick these up. Still spam is something the internet can really do without.
Spam is still a problem, but like you said in the OP, Gmail’s spam filter works wonders. Maybe 1 in 500 spam emails will land in my inbox, and even that is a rare occurance.
Besides, how boring would your inbox be if you didn’t have to wade through “ENLARGE YOUR P3NI5″, “GET CHEAP V1AGR4″ and “INTERNET STOCKS FOR MEGACORP ARE ON THE UP” to get to your daily free horoscope email?
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i never ever had problem with spam.
i protect my email-adresses with
different “proxy”-adresses from
different freemail services.
i don’t use spam filters,
…
because they are not working properly.
shit happens when you wait for mail
and it is blocked by your stupid
spam filter. and to raise it’s “IQ”
u have to configure it manually –
and often
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I have 2 anti-spam programs running on our exchange at work (120 mailboxes) and I find the amount of spam still very annoying, every day a new load of spammails is coming in, one day I receive dozens of spammail in German, the next day in French, the other day spammails containing only .gif’s etc
The last 30 days our mailserver processed 39305 mails of which 34467 was spam or 88%, on some days we get 98% spam ! Spam is not a thing of the future yet
.. I mean a thing of the past ofcourse LOL
using my own server, never had problems with spam
“The survey was conducted over the telephone with 1492 U.S. adult Internet users participating.”
Or the number is decreasing because it’s become a stigma to say you can’t deal with spam. On a phone call, it’s easy to say it doesn’t bother you and appears less often than it used to. Also that you watch noting but the Art History Channel on TV and eat only organic cruelty free food… yeah, right.
I just use two emails.
One to do the usual sign up to this website stuff and the other that is only given out to friends.
The one for signing up to sites (after wiping it a couple months ago) has well over 1000 emails 90% spam. Because I don’t use it that much I can’t be arsed to plow through it.
My other main account on the other hand has little to know spam as I don’t give it out to websites or strangers on the net.
I like how they mention specifically that the survey was conducted by phone. If they did it by email I bet it would have been marked as spam
In other news, telemarketing phone calls went up 15% between February and March
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