Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So
Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So
Bill Gates was wildly optimistic when he said in 2004 that the problem of spam would be "solved" by 2006. The volume of junk email transmitted worldwide is still enormous. But a remarkable trend is underfoot, according to Brad Taylor, a staff software engineer at Google: The number of spam attempts that is, the number of junk messages sent out by spammers is flat, and may even be declining for the first time in years.
Google won't disclose numbers, but the company says that spam attempts, as a percentage of e-mail that's transmitted through its Gmail system, have waned over the last year. That could indicate that some spammers have gotten discouraged and have stopped trying to get through Google’s spam filters. Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So
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