Spam Filters & Blockers: The solution to unsolicited email?
Spam is a term that, for the vast majority of us, has a very
negative connotation. How could it be different when the average
Internet user gets over 50 pieces of junk email per day?
Moreover, research indicates that by 2006 the average internet
user can expect to receive at least 5,000 pieces of spam per
year. That sure is a giant amount of spam!
None of us want to waste our time, our bandwidth and our hard
drive space to receive spam and then delete it. Because our
day-to-day lives are delayed, interrupted and significantly
disturbed by this large number of unsolicited email, software
manufacturers have developed a number of products especially
designed to fight spam. These products might be called