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                  I suspect email isn't long for this world

I'll go out on a limb here and make a prediction: By January of 2009, email
as we know it will be dead [1]. It will have to be, given these current stats
at The Company (which is a small webhosting company):

Table: Amount of spam through our spam firewall
       Total   %       Day     %       Hour    %
------------------------------
Blocked 53,632,194      94      47,855  96      2,425   95
Blocked: Virus  17,276  0       0       0       0       0
Quarantined     54      0       0       0       0       0
Allowed: Tagged 658,888 1       177     0       7       0
Allowed 2,807,144       5       1,957   4       119     5
Total Received  57,115,556      100     49,989  100     2,551   100

As a friend said (on a private post—hope he doesn't mind me posting it here):

> But really I hope you all, being support and customer care, really know
> that we, being server ops, are doing everything we can to keep up with the
> dramatic increase in mail volume internet wide.
>
> Yesterday alone we saw a temporary spike of email volume that was measured
> at 100Mb (Megabit)/sec for about 2 hours. This is really really hard to
> keep up with, and has a lot to do with why I am getting out of the
> webhosting industry all together.
>

And another friend (not the same as quoted above) is seriously looking for
another job away from webhosting as well, although I don't know if it has to
do with the email volume or not.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/11/21.1

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