A visual history of spam (and virus) email

A BB reader sez: "Raymond Chen has kept every single piece of spam and every virus-laden email which he has received, while at Microsoft, since 1997. He has taken the data regarding numbers and file size, and plotted them out on a graph. It makes for an interesting, and informational, read."

Spam went ballistic starting in 2002. You could see it growing in 2001, but 2002 was when it really took off.

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(via The Spam Weblog)