[Year 12 IT Apps] Spam Stats

Dave & Marree Mitchell davemarree at optusnet.com.au
Fri Jan 26 09:50:30 EST 2007


1971 The first e-mail was sent by the computer engineer Ray
Tomlinson
50 billion Number of e-mails sent every day
45 billion Number of e-mails from spammers
$50 billion The cost in lost productivity and expenses to fight
spam in 2006
Source: The Times Online

David Mitchell
The King David School
Head of ICT


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