Almost nine out of every ten emails sent globally is spam, and Australia was one of the most heavily targeted countries this year, according to a report released by MessageLabs.

Industry and the Government are gearing up to fight a war on the spam that accounts for more than 90 per cent of email traffic.

Telecom said a huge spam assault on Xtra's email network was to blame for some emails taking days to be delivered in recent weeks.

"We are fronting on a global basis another spam war," said Mark Ratcliffe, Telecom's chief operating officer.

» nzherald.co.nz - Jenny Keown - 18-12-2006

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