Spam levels still down more than 60%

If you're getting a lot less e-mail recently it's not because your mail server is malfunctioning, but because spam levels have dropped enormously since the shut down off a webhosting firm that was used by many big spammers. Hosting firm McColo was taken down on November 11, and SpamCop statistics unveil spam levels are still a lot lower than they used to be.

This week SpamCop detected an average of only 10.7 spam mails per second, compared to an average of 27.9 messages per second since the start of this year.