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Letter: Spam tsunami

Published 13 December 2003

From Brian Fattorini

Your article on stopping spam mentions that “over a third of incoming email at Âé¶¹´«Ã½ is now spam” (29 November, p 20).

For a period of one week between Sunday 26 October 2003, 21:11:24 hours (GMT) and Sunday 2 November 2003, 21:14:25 hours, we decided to log the number of emails that were sent to our Kite News and Information website.

In total, we received 984 spam or unsolicited emails, an average of 140 per day. Altogether, 97.4 per cent of our emails were junk. Unfortunately, this was a typical week.

London, UK

Issue no. 2425 published 13 December 2003

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