Project Honey Pot, launched back in 2004, has now trapped its billionth spam message.

“Stats from the project reveal that Monday is the busiest day of the week for e-mail spam, and Saturday the quietest,” writes The Register’s John Leyden. “Spam volumes peak around 12:00 (GMT) and reach a low around 23:00 (GMT).”

“Every time a user’s e-mail address is harvested from a Web site, it results in an average of 850 spam messages,” Leyden writes.

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