E-mail is out of favour as spam goes into overdrive
E-mail. Who needs it? Fewer and fewer of you, going by Computer Weekly's recent Big Question poll, when 88% of IT workers said it was more of a hindrance than a help.
And to this hammer blow Downtime can now add the findings of a survey from network monitoring specialist Ipswitch, which show that just under 85% of all e-mail being received is spam.
Nearly 50% of these unwanted missives are attempts by phishers to collect bank account details from unsuspecting punters, and another 25% are unsolicited offers of medication. The rest are mostly attempts to flog fake watches, fake software or pornography.
Downtime is sticking to the telephone for the time being.
