InternetWeek has published a State of the Spam article, in which they claim that 80% of all e-mail traffic during the first three months of 2006 was spam.

The article includes this stunning piece of analysis on page 3:

[Michael] Geist, the [Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa], figures that if 80 percent of e-mail is spam, "then four out of five e-mail servers are there to deal with spam, not to deal with legitimate mail."

Ya know, I think the guy has a point - I mean, four out of five is right around that 80% figure quoted earlier in the article...

Sheesh...