Only 84% garbage!
September 9th, 2004 by Kelson. Posted in Spam and tagged for Spam, trendsMessageLabs has found that “only” 84.2% of email was spam in August, down from 94.5% in July.
Let that sink in.
Just under one-sixth of email sent last month was “real” mail. That means, on average, someone who receives 10 “real” emails a day will receive 60 pieces of spam. And just that much is an improvement!
Can you imagine that statistic applied to something else, like food? “Only 84% of milk sold in August was contaminated…” Or entertainment. It would be like watching 10 minutes of a TV show scattered among 50 minutes of commercials.
Actually, the way some stations show movies, that might not be too far off the mark…
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One Response to “Only 84% garbage!”
By Katie on Sep 9, 2004
Aaahh, that’s only in the last half of the movie. As I remember it, the ratio starts out at about 70-30 and gradually flip-flops over the course of the timeslot. Of course, that data is from a few years ago, so it probably reaches 10-90 by the last 5 minutes these days…..