Idaho: #1 in Spam
From KTVB:
Idaho is known as the land of big mountains, tasty potatoes and lots and lots of spam. Spam? Yep, the Gem State gets more unsolicited e-mail than any other state, according to Symantec’s MessageLabs Group. The company named Idaho “the spam capital of the US” for 2009. A dubious honor for sure. Symantec says about 93.8% of all e-mail destined for Idaho inboxes was sent there without permission. That’s far above the average global rate of 86.4%. Most companies and e-mail providers have an array of spam filters, blockers and other techniques that stop much of that from actually arriving in your inbox – but just six out of every 100 e-mails sent to Idahoans is legit. Idaho zoomed up the charts – jumping a whopping 43 spots from last year, when it was the sixth least spammed states