Meg McCall with the University of Wisconsin Information Technology department likens it to a technology arms race. She said UW’s servers that handle e-mail accounts for 80,0000 people are almost full. “It is getting near capacity,” said McCall. “I think we have the ability to process about six to seven million message a day, and so we are getting up to that point.” McCall said about 80-percent of the e-mail at UW is spam.
Rob Kohlhepp with the campus’s engineering department said as long as spammers keep making money, there will always be spam. “We just bought servers last year, they were not very busy at all, now we’re seeing that they’re busy,” said Kohlhepp.