The future of SPAM

I subscribe to many, many newsletters that involve the IT industry – trends, troubleshooting, etc…. One of these newsletters I received had some alarming information in it regarding the trend of spam and viruses as related to email. The data, as reported, focused on email processed by one large vendor…

Postini recently predicted what 2005 will bring for spam and gave an overview of the situation in 2004. Here’s a summary of what happened – and what Postini thinks will happen during the next 12 months: