stats on spam?

Mon Jul 8 06:22:41 UTC 2002

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, deeann mikula wrote:
> can anyone point me to any current statistics on the amount of email
> traffic carried on the internet that is actually spam?

The Wall Street Journal has an on-going series about UCE/Spam.  Today's
article is about Hotmail.  According to the article Hotmail gets
approximately two billion e-mail messages a day, 80% of them are spam.

Hotmail Has Quite a Job to Save
Its E-Mail Empire From Spam
by Lee Gomes
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1026085791622086280,00.html?mod=technology%5Ffeatured%5Fstories%5Fhs