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Nov 10 2008

Spamming not popular anymore; 1 response out of 12,500,000 emails

Shoaib Hashmi 

Spam

Once spamming was a way to make some money but not anymore because now people have become smarter. According to a study, only 1 out of 12,500,000 spam emails get a response now. The study was carried out by seven computer scientists from various universities including University of California, Berkeley and UC. According to the study:

The best way to measure spam is to be a spammer.

Moreover the study reveals:

After 26 days, and almost 350 million email messages, only 28 sales resulted.

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