AOL Sees Over One Billion Pieces of Spam Every Day (and Other Fun Facts)

Aside from being legally illuminating, judicial opinions often provide interesting tidbits of factual information.  In reviewing the Virginia Court of Appeals' opinion in Jaynes v. Commonwealth, --- S.E.2d ---, 2006 WL 2527678 (Va. App. 2006), we learned that:

• "AOL employs 30 people on its spam response team and receives 7 to 10 million complaints each day regarding spam";

• "Over 1 billion pieces of spam attempt to enter AOL's private network daily"; and

• "AOL typically blocks 70-80% of the e-mail traffic that attempts to pass into its network because it comes from IP addresses that have a history of sending spam."

For more information about the Jaynes opinion, see Virginia Appeals Court Affirms Nation’s First Felony Spamming Conviction.

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