AOL reports drop in spam mails to their Subscribers

America’s largest Internet Service Provider has good news for the web users. AOL say that their subscribers are getting fewer spam mails than in recent times. A trend, which is occurring for the first time in almost 5 years. As per stats released by the Dulles based company, average amount of spam sent daily from the Internet to AOL members dropped by 22 percent. November saw AOL servers receiving 1.6 billion spam mails, which is much lower than 2.1 billion numbers for November 2003.

AOL has their spam blockers at place and they too are catching fewer spams. Their catch figures have dropped to almost 50% of earlier ones. The Internet Company base these facts on the assumption that Spammers around the world are finally giving it up and avoiding spamming mails to get through Junk Mail filters.

Carl Hutzler, director of anti-spam operations at AOL told the media: “Our members are telling us they are getting less spam than ever on AOL, and we’re seeing a substantial drop in the number of spam messages reaching AOL members’ spam folders. That means one thing: many spammers are raising the white flag of surrender for the first time since 1999.”

AOL started keeping a track of spamming on their servers way back in 1996 and are working hard on blocking every possible spam mail that is sent to an AOL customer. They also have taken other security initiatives like giving away free copies of McAfee Corp.’s VirusScan Online safeguard and other anti-spam applications with their offerings.