{"id":1354,"date":"2007-12-27T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/the-spam-trend\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T16:42:15","slug":"the-spam-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/the-spam-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spam Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is bad &#8211; straight from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/publications.mediapost.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&amp;s=73300&amp;Nid=37734&amp;p=912836\">Online Media Daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEARLY 9 OUT OF 10 email messages delivered to large enterprises in November were spam, according to the latest stats from Proofpoint. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based data security company released its Proofpoint Spam Index and found that while overall spam levels dropped slightly (from 89% in October to 88% in November), large companies were still receiving an extremely high volume of spam&#8211;with an upsurge in attachment-based spam of almost every kind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If they think that is bad, they should see how much comment spam a blog can generate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is bad &#8211; straight from Online Media Daily: NEARLY 9 OUT OF 10 email messages delivered to large enterprises in November were spam, according to the latest stats from Proofpoint. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based data security company released its Proofpoint Spam Index and found that while overall spam levels dropped slightly (from 89% in October to 88% in November), large companies were still receiving an extremely high volume of spam&#8211;with an upsurge in attachment-based spam of almost every kind. If they think that is bad, they should see how much comment spam a blog can generate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[172,171],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends","tag-junk-email","tag-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-lQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2311,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/04\/spam-sourcing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1354,"position":0},"title":"Spam Sourcing","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"How is this for a spam approach to applicants? You have been accepted for a high paying work from home job. Click the link below to get all the information: Click Here Sincerely, Hiring Manager p.s. 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