Spam accounted for 80% of emails in the first quarter of 2006, according to a report by Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group. MAAWG members include AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft.


Spam accounted for 80% of emails in the first quarter of 2006, according to the MAAWG.

Additional findings of the report include:

– Number of mailboxes represented reached 389.6 million, compared to 350.2 during Q4 2005.

– Number of dropped connections and blocked/tagged inbound email reached 370.1 billion, compared to 342 billion during Q4 2005.

– Number of unaltered delivered email reached 90.5 billion, compared to 82.2 billion during Q4 2005.

– Number of dropped connections and blocked/tagged inbound emails per mailbox was 950, compared to 977 during Q4 2005.

– Number of dropped connections and blocked/tagged inbound emails per unaltered delivered email was 4.09 compared to 4.16 during Q4 2005.

MAAWG’s members include:

– AOL

– Yahoo

– Bell Canada

– Cingular Wireless

– EarthLink

– France Telecomm

– Microsoft

– Verizon

The MAAWG is a group where members come together to fight online exploitation, including spam, viruses, and denial-of-service attacks.

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