Has anyone noticed that they’re getting more spam recently? Especially bank phishing emails or individuals offering to transfer you millions of dollars. It’s really getting on my nerves!

As a company that provides email hosting, we’re doing all we can to combat spam at the moment, our mail server scans every mail and uses http://spamhaus.org to see if the mail is spam, generates statistics on the words used using bayesian alalysis to generate a points score of spaminess and also compares spam signatures with a database of known spam. Everything is virus checked too. Stats currently show that 73% of mail sent to our mail server is either blocked or discarded as it’s spam. When you include what I manually delete from my own mailbox, I’d have to (anecdotally) conclude that 90% + of all email is spam. It’s very annoying. Therefore I know it must be annoying everyone else! What can we do?

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