2 Million per Second

[Bec]

That's how many emails were sent out per second in 2007, and 70% were spam.

I'd tend to say the 2008 and 2009 spam % figure is probably down, but then again, with all the spam blocking software, it's hard to say if it's more, less or the same.

[Lee]

Did you realize that 2 million per second is also how much the average GFYer makes?

Regards,

Lee

[MiamiB]

That's how many emails were sent out per second in 2007, and 70% were spam.

I'd tend to say the 2008 and 2009 spam % figure is probably down, but then again, with all the spam blocking software, it's hard to say if it's more, less or the same.

That is really an amazing figure! At least "spam" is a "green" form of advertising unlike "junk mail" that is actually made from paper and then burns fuel being physically delivered to a mail box...so god bless spam for helping save the planet!

Just hit the delete button...

[mickey]

ROFL sour grapes :develish: - but truely yes, if only it was that easy :high:

Did you realize that 2 million per second is also how much the average GFYer makes?

Regards,

Lee

[HunkyLuke]

on average, spam actually gets a sale at the rate of 1 for every 4.5 million emails....anyone want to do the maths?

[Bec]

let's see, 70% of 2 million is 1,400,000 spam emails per second.
24 hours = 86,400 seconds.
That comes out to 120,960,000,000 spam mails daily.
Divided by the 4.5 million = 26,880 sales per day.

yea, I could see living out of a mobile trailer and staying one step ahead of the law for thousands of dollars of income daily.

[Rich]

thats a lot of money being made from spam!

[HunkyLuke]

yup, and thats exactly why they do it and why spam is not going away anytime soon

[DrChango]

It's weird that anyone would buy anything from a spam e-mail. Same goes for those adware sponsors...why would anyone buy something from a site that pops up whenever they boot up their computer thanks to a piece of malicious code that interferes with everything they do?

"Oh, man, these guys totally fucked up my computer and now I can't play WOW, but that ad for that dating site that pops up every time I check my e-mail is mighty convincing..."