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Email Spam Rate Falling

Despite what your email inbox might be telling you, overall spam rates have dropped below 50 percent for the first time in 12 years. In June, the rate of unwanted emails reached 49.7 percent—1.8 percent less than the month before, which fell 0.6 percent from the month before that. According to the latest Symantec Intelligence Report , the last time the security firm recorded a similarly low spam rate was in September 2003/PC. More here.

Question: Are you getting less email spam today than you did 5 years ago?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog