One of the few areas of agreement amongst those seeking solutions to spam is that there is no silver bullet. Spam certainly has transformed unexpectedly from the familiar into a horror. Messages touting pornography, Pharmaceuticals, body enhancement, get-rich-quick schemes and religious salvation now pour into our inboxes in ever increasing numbers. At the beginning of 2003, spam -bulk, unsolicited email - was around ten percent of all email traffic, according to Mark Sunner, CTO of U.K. email security outsourcer MessageLabs. "I did a simple trend analysis and came up with a figure of 50 percent by year end. In the event, I was wrong - the figure was actually 62 percent. I've done the same exercise again and I'm expecting a figure of around 80 percent by April 2004."
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