Mike, over on the TechDirt site, makes a good point about the reality of the recent headlines about AOL spam being reduced:
AOL is claiming that their new spam filter has greatly reduced spam, creating nice looking headlines about less spam. Of course, you could question their findings. The details show that what was reduced was spam complaints. This might be a proxy for the amount of spam that got through to inboxes, or it might just show that AOL subscribers have wised up and realized that reporting spam to AOL doesn't seem to do a bit of good -- and they've just given up on it.
Boldface added by TechPopuli.
Posted by jackhodgson at December 28, 2004 08:21 AM