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More Spam in the News

If you're awash in junk email, it may be a small comfort to know you're not alone. Last August, BusinessWeek online reported that by the end of this year, unsolicited bulk email could comprise the majority of message traffic on the Internet.

According to the latest figures, spam traffic is up eight percent from a year ago, and it now makes up 36% of all email traveling over the Internet.

Beyond the annoyance factor, spam hogs bandwidth and hampers productivity. For more details on the growing problem of unsolicited bulk email, see


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