AOL drops spam by 75 percent in 2004
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AOL is announcing a major victory in the fight against spam. According to America Online&#39;s member spam reports, the ISP achieved a 75% decline in junk e-mail sent to its members in 2004.
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The security firm said that adult spam -- which it describes as offensive and inappropriate e-mails targeting people over 18 -- accounted for just 3% of the total spam sent during February.
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America Online Inc., the nation&#39;s largest Internet service provider, reported a significant reduction in the amount of spam sent to its subscribers, the first drop in five years.
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The world&#39;s largest online service reported junk e-mail declined by more than 75% this year. NEW YORK  - You&#39;ve got less spam, according to America Online, the world&#39;s largest online service.
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America Online said yesterday that it has seen a substantial decline in unsolicited e-mails this year, though some anti-spam experts said the company may be the only Internet provider experiencing such a drop-off.
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Over 42 percent of all spam mails sent this year around the world came from the US. In a list named the &quot;dirty dozen,&quot; the US topped 12 countries from which most spam messages originate.
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As a satisfied user of Time Warner&#39;s (NYSE: TWX) AOL service for the past dozen years, this week&#39;s news that the country&#39;s leading online service has made great strides in eradicating spam isn&#39;t lost on me.
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Anti-spam vendors hit back on Tuesday against analyst firm Gartner&#39;s claims that the level of spam is falling. &quot;I don&#39;t agree with it at all,&quot; said Mark Sommer, chief technology officer at MessageLabs.
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Internet service AOL said on Thursday  it had resolved a software problem that delayed the  transmission of millions of e-mails since the late morning.
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Amid news of America being the largest Spam sending country in the world with a whooping 42% of all Spam sent, AOL the world&#39;s largest Internet service provider is reporting a 75% decrease in Junk e-mail based on its internal member reports.
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Questions regarding potential patent issues and skepticism from the  open source community relating to Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) SenderID have prompted global Internet service provider AOL (NYSE: AOL) to drop the anti-spam technology.
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It might be too early to celebrate, but according to Symantec&#39;s numbers, the rate of increase of internet spam is easing a bit.
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By Dan Heckel, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 26--The e-mails I get on my office computer break down like this: 50 percent are ones I need to read and 49.99999 percent of them are spam I don't need.
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America Online Inc. said Monday that its users reported receiving more than 75 percent less junk e-mail this year as the overall volume of spam blocked by the Internet service provider declined by half from 2003.
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NEW YORK AOL says it looks like some spammers are starting to throw in the cyber towel. The world&#39;s largest Internet service provider says that the number of attempted e-mails was down 500 (m) million -- or
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AOL released its second annual top 10 spam terms yesterday, listing the subject lines of the most popular junk e-mails. The Dulles-based company said the number of spams sent to users  was down from 2.4 billion in 2003 to 1.2 billion this year. -The Washington Post
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It wasn&#39;t long ago that competitive entities seemed to be joining together to combat Internet users&#39; common foe, spam. However, despite the fact that big Internet players