DM News: Spam Rate Holds Steady, Filter Companies Say

Robbed of their second favorite past time, spam filter companies can no longer shout to the hills that the proportion of spam in email is growing, as spam levels are essentially remaining the same. Postini and Brightmail may disagree on how much of email is spam (about 80 percent versus 60 percent), but they agree it isn't getting larger. A director at Postini told DM News that at these high proportions, it would take a radical increase to begin to register in the figures.