'Tis the season to send spam

If you find the amount of spam you are receiving these days is a real pain in the you-know-what, don't expect things to get any better as the end of the year approaches:

'Tis the season to send spam | CNET News.com

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In addition to plenty of turkey, a record amount of spam will be served up this holiday season. Mass e-mailers traditionally bump up their activity as the year winds down. But this year, the amount of junk messages could be unprecedented, companies that make spam-busting tools say. And senders of unsolicited ads are already celebrating the close of the harvest season and the approach of Christmas. (continued)

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In October, 63 billion junk messages were sent daily, on average, compared with 31 billion a year ago, according to data from IronPort Systems. Another antispam specialist, MessageLabs, reports that 88.7 percent of all e-mail sent in October was unsolicited. That percentage is expected to rise to nearly 90 percent in November and December. That could add up to a huge pile of unwanted e-mail. IronPort predicts that the number of spam messages will average 78 billion a day in December, up from 38 billion last year.

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All that unsolicited e-mail eats up a lot of bandwidth and can clog e-mail servers, not to mention inboxes. Last month, all the spam sent worldwide added up to 819 terabytes per day in data, compared with 275 terabytes a year ago, according to IronPort's research.

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Even gmail is having problems with spam.

Found two messages that were not spam, in the spam folder.

Found one message that was spam in my inbox.

This is unusual, but easily sorted.

Had about 150 spam that gmail caught the last two days, so cannot complain about three in the wrong boxes.