Is the torrent of spam emails in your inbox finally going down? Maybe a little bit, based on some recent studies reported by the New Scientist magazine [1].

E-mail filtering firm MX Logic [2] reported that spam accounted for 68% of emails passing through its network in 2005.

Ummm... that was the good news, actually.

Why good news? Because that's down from 77% in 2004.

Not only are fewer spam messages being sent across the internet, it appears that spam filters are working better than ever. An FTC test showed that "two free web-based ISPs' anti-spam filters effectively blocked almost all spam sent to e-mail addresses that FTC staff had posted on the Internet."

In other words, if you're not using a spam filter of some kind, what are you waiting for?