On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:40:46 +1200, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now that the 'Net is choked with millions - literally - of compromised > Microsoft machines used as mail relays, idiomatically called 'spam-bots', > delays are inevitable. It's a fact of life, get used to the idea, and > accept > it. Note that its not always Microsoft machines, There are thousands of poorly setup linux box sitting on nice 100mbit connections. > > At the moment about 70 to 80 percent of e-mail traffic is unwanted spam. > ISPs have implemented filters of one sort or another to remove it from the > data stream. Some have been more successful that others, Some have faster > machines than others to do the work. When one considers the complexity of > the I have some interesting statistics available for the months of February and March this year. http://i.stole.all.the.rootservers.org/~ben/email/
>> I know it's not instant messaging :) > Well don't behave as if you thought it was then. /mode +m -- Thanks, Ben Devine
