{"id":2211,"date":"2013-07-03T09:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T09:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:19:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T09:19:35","slug":"over-80-of-email-is-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Over 80% of email is spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/Crystal_Clear_app_email.png\" alt=\"email image\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2212\" \/>A study of emails carried out between 1st and 30th June 2013 and covering 200,000 mail accounts generating 8.5 mn. emails a day has revealed that over 80% of email traffic is spam and only 9% is legitimate traffic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemondeinformatique.fr\/actualites\/lire-la-messagerie-toujours-polluee-par-les-spams-54227.html\">according to today&#8217;s Le Monde Informatique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study&#8217;s authors &#8211; email security specialists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vade-retro.com\/en\/\">Vade Retro<\/a> &#8211; have revealed that 81.38% of the world&#8217;s email traffic is in fact unsolicited and unwanted spam. Of the remainder, 9.40% is advertising, 9.18% are legitimate messages and 0.04% of emails harbour viruses.<\/p>\n<p>The study reveals its subjects made 1.6 million unsubscribe requests with a compliance rate of 97.7%. Half the time cancelling a subscription involves sending an email to a generic address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of emails carried out between 1st and 30th June 2013 and covering 200,000 mail accounts generating 8.5 mn. emails a day has revealed that over 80% of email traffic is spam and only 9% is legitimate traffic, according to today&#8217;s Le Monde Informatique. The study&#8217;s authors &#8211; email security specialists Vade Retro &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}