AOL Members See 20% to 30% in Spam

In Congressional testimony, Ted Leonsis, Vice Chair of AOL and President of the AOL Core Service, told members of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee that junk email in AOL member’s email inboxes had declined by 20% to 30%, on average, over the past year. At the same time, Mr. Leonsis stated, member awareness of AOL’s antispam activities had doubled to almost 80%, as measured by internal customer satisfaction surveys, since early 2003. However, the number of attempted spam messages have increased somewhat. According to Leonsis, that means one thing – “while the spammers are getting more desperate and aggressive, AOL spamfighting is just getting better.”http://www.aol.com