According to Yahoo! Tech's Christopher Null, the percentage of all email communication that is spam has dropped. To 97%.
I always knew that my junk mail folders seemed perpetually full, but this was mind-boggling. Most electronic email traffic is useless, unwanted solicitations for money, porn and free pills that promise to extend life and specific body parts.
Junk mail provides the promise of free degrees, medical miracles, adult classifieds, free alcohol and even instant ordinations. In other words, the stuff should be trashed. Quickly.
The problem is that email filters are almost too good. A lot of folks know that regularly sifting through junk mail is necessary to save gems from getting tossed. A lot of times, an important email can be caught in the filters.
It can be likened to the information that passes through our senses on a daily basis. Do we filter EVERYTHING out, including potentially valuable morsels?
Praise God
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2 comments:
Dropped to 97%? Yikes. I don't like it, but knowing that I've won a million dollars is always good news :)
There are certainly days when the filter is too strict and I miss something amazing that God was trying to say. But I think more often the filter gets turned off letting junk get in that just can't be deleted once it's there.
Interesting perspective... as always.
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