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       EMAIL & SPAM TRIVIA
       By: eba95 Date: August 9, 2010, 3:55 am
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       The world's first e-mail message was
       sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.
       • Unsolicited email earned the name
       "spam" because it resembled a
       Monty Python skit where a chorus of
       Vikings drowned out other sounds
       by singing "spam, spam, spam."
       • The New York Times reports that in
       February 2004, 62% of all e-mail was
       spam.
       • In February 2004, a unique Morse
       code for the '@' symbol was
       introduced: ·--·-· (Dit-Dah-Dah-Dit-
       Dah-Dit).
       • The time spent deleting SPAM costs
       United States businesses $21.6 billion
       annually.
       • Spam filters that catch the word
       "cialis" will not allow many work-
       related e-mails through because that
       word is embedded inside the word
       "specialist".
       • 35 Billion e-mails are sent each day
       throughout the world.
       • During Bill Clinton's entire eight year
       presidency, he only sent two e-mails.
       One was to John Glenn when he was
       aboard the space shuttle, and the
       other was a test of the e-mail
       system.
       • 77 percent of Yahoo! Mail poll
       respondents said they are more
       aggravated by weeding through
       spam than they are by cleaning a
       dirty toilet.
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