Research: "95% of email is junk"

Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5219554.stm

Some statistics from a report by 'email security firm' Return Path;

- 95% of all email is junk (spam, viruses, error messages)
- Less than 4% is legitimate traffic
- 99% of the computers they 'monitor' have been taken over by spammers
- Only 1% of net addresses could be regarded as legitimate sources of mail.
The rest are hijacked computers, or bots, used by spammers to send e-mail

Another company 'Ironport' claims that 80% of email comes from compromised
hosts.