[Year 12 IT Apps] Spam Stats

[Andrew Sutton]

Dave, you just sent an email that distracted me from doing my work!!

:) 
By the way there was a big article on that sort of thing in the Green Guide
yesterday.

Andrew Sutton
IT / SOSE Teacher
St Arnaud Secondary College





-----Original Message-----
From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Dave & Marree Mitchell
Sent: Friday, 26 January 2007 9:51 AM
To: itapps at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Spam Stats

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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