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       12 intresting email facts
       By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 3:45 am
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       160 billion emails are sent daily, 97%
       of them are spam.
       Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of
       energy every year,
       enough to power 2.4 million homes,
       producing 17 million tons of CO2.
       9 out of every 1,000 computers are
       invected with spam.
       Spammer get 1 response to every 12
       million emails
       they send (yet it still makes them a
       small profit).
       The first electronic mail, or "email",
       was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson.
       It was also his idea to use the @ sign
       to separate the name of the user
       from the name of the computer.
       Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her
       first email in 1976.
       Some 190 billion emails are sent
       daily - more than 2 million per
       second - by 1,2 billion email senders.
       About 70% (133 billion emails) are
       spam and viruses.
       There are about 1,4 billion registered
       email address
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