Brad Taylor, Google’s chief spam “watchdog,” suspects that spammers may actually be giving up as filters becomes more sophisticated and fewer of their messages get through.

Google won’t disclose numbers, but the company says that spam attempts, as a percentage of e-mail that’s transmitted through its Gmail system, have waned over the last year. That could indicate that some spammers have gotten discouraged and have stopped trying to get through Google’s spam filters.

Other experts disagree, claiming that spam is on the rise.

All we know is that gmail’s spam filter is so good that we have no concept of how much spam is truly out there, and that’s the way it should be.

Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So [Wired via BoingBoing]
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