So this massive shift in direction seems to indicate that those of us in the business of protecting users from the dangers of e-mail spam are out of a job, doesn\u2019t it? Not so fast, Chippy. First, the law of First In, Last Out applies here. The fact of the matter is that spam\u2019s been around way longer than those texty little handheld virus machines that reside in your pocket like a security breach just waiting to happen.<\/p>\n

E-mail\u2019s gotten more ubiquitous, not less, than it was five or ten years ago. It\u2019s nothing to have five or more e-mail addys that you use on a regular basis. Add up the amount of spam that each receive on a weekly basis. Just because the spammers have gotten smarter and spam e-mail volumes have gone down, it\u2019s not time to crack the champagne just yet. In fact, most of the reduced volume of spam e-mail was the absolute junk, the senseless rubbish that even the most gray-matter challenged among us wouldn\u2019t fall for in a billion years.<\/p>\n