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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

AOL spam down 75%

"You've got less spam, according to America Online, the world's largest online service. The online unit of Time Warner Inc. Monday said junk e-mail, declined by more than 75% this year, based on its internal member reports," according to Reuters.

"The daily average number of e-mails blocked by AOL's spam filters fell 50% to about 1.2 million e-mails in late 2004 from a peak of 2.4 billion in 2003. Attempts made by junk e-mail senders also fell to about 1.6 billion daily, from 2.1 billion last year."

There are more numbers in AOL's press release.

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