[93608] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best Email Time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hester)
Fri Dec 8 08:05:52 2006
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:50:57 -0500
From: David Hester <dhester@corp.earthlink.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200612051700.kB5H0mXA026046@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 12/5/06 12:00 PM, "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
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
