According to Jupiter Research, if you are an average American Internet user, this year you will have received 2,200 spam messages; and, by 2007, that number will increase by 1400 messages to 3600.
Despite efforts to control spammers, Yahoo reports, spam has increased from 8 percent of all email to 40 percent.
Problems with controlling spam--filters miss mispelled words; blacklists are not exhaustive; spam is global, so the number of sources is high and difficult to monitor/control; spam passes through unsecured servers.
Spam, in other words, is technologically difficult to control, and analysts think that legal rather than technical regulation will have more impact. "While spammers are hard to track down and prosecute, you get a few of them and it will scare off others," said one analyst.
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