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Re: Best Email Time

  • From: David Hester
  • Date: Fri Dec 08 08:18:21 2006

On 12/5/06 12:00 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:14:06 EST, William Allen Simpson said:
> 
>> The "study" says that "nearly 20 percent of email does not get delivered to
>> the inbox as intended, largely because it gets mistaken as spam."
> 
> Somewhere around 85% of all mail attempts to us are summarily rejected because
> the source is in some block list or other, resulting in the spam not being
> delivered to our user's inboxes as the spammer intended, largely because it
> is recognized as spam.
> 
> Statistics are what you read into them....

CNN recently reported that 90% of all email on the internet is spam.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/index.html

David Hester