Crazy Stats on Spam

gtaylor writes "An article in the Korea Times says that market research firm Emforce has established that South Korean internet users average about 1600 pieces of spam annually, summing to around 39 billion pieces of spam per year. According to the same story, Americans receive about 2500 pieces of spam per year." I figured that I get somewhere around 30-40,000 pieces of spam annually. Lucky me... I get *this* statistic to be on the other side of the bell curve :)

Comments

END RACISM IN LINUX NOW!!

[egg troll]

It is time for us, the people of color to take a stand! As a black woman I am angered, shocked and saddened to see the Open Source community in general - and Linux users specifically - continuing to perpetuate racism. I know that many of you may not consider yourselves party to any racist beliefs, but by using Linux you are condoning and assisting an OS that oppresses minorities.

Companies such as Microsoft and Apple have made great strides in making technology available to the African-American community. It saddens me to see that Linux has not taken similar steps. While the two companies mentioned above donate time and resources to impoverished schools - and I'd like to take an aside to thank Microsoft for their offer to donate even more to schools to settle some lawsuits - I've yet to hear of a Redhat or a Mandrake that will make its software freely available to our children. By keeping their product out of the hands of those who need it most, these companies are depriving us of our chance to shine!

Additionally when one looks closely at the userbase of Linux, one will see that its made up almost entirely of wealthy white men. Nowhere are my fellow African-American's depicted, and women are almost as rare. I do not believe this to be an accident, not in this day and age. Not with a product that counts as one of its biggest programs something unfortunately named "Samba." I think we all remember this mean-spirited fairy tell that the white devil would tell its children. I would remind Linux of what became of the "Sambas" chain of restaurants when they would not end their racist name.

Further examples can be seen in Apache. This name steals this Native American tribe of their identity. To take a proud race of people and demean them by naming a third-rate web browser after them is criminal.

This blatant racism must be brought to a halt! Such a cancer cannot be allowed to fester within the Open Source community! I encourage my fellow proud, black Brothers and Sisters to boycott this racist OS. There are other alternatives that will not keep us in chains.

Happy Kwannza!