Email and Spam Statistics Revealed
Posted by Michael on Friday March 14, 2003 @03:26AM
from the maybe-the-spam-is-the-good-part dept.
Michael writes: According to the Washington Post, recent statistics indicate that 40% of all email traffic in the US is Spam. SlashNOT has obtained exclusive access to the complete data these statistics were based on and thus we present the following summary of the remaining 60%:
| 20% | Email Viruses |
| 10% | Email Virus hoaxes |
| 9% | Bad jokes forwarded from well-meaning friends and relatives |
| 6% | Chain letters promising money from Bill Gates |
| 6% | Urgent pleas for help for Craig Shergold or Kelsey Jones |
| 5% | Conversations that would have taken 30 seconds by phone |
| 3% | Misdirected and embarrassing messages |
| 1% | Effective and informative communication |
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Has anyone done a study on how many web sites are just parodies of other web sites?
Comment by Captain Shenanigan — March 14, 2003 @ 9:21 pm
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Yes. As it turns out, they all are.
Comment by Matthew — March 17, 2003 @ 5:23 pm