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Crazy Stats on Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the if-only-that-was-it dept.

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 :)

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  1. Re:you dont know what you are talking about... by ghurtado · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You cannot expect a serious discussion out of a post where most of the facts are wrong or misinterpreted. Nobody can take those claims seriously, when you:

    1/ compare "Linux" to "Microsoft", obviously forgetting that the former is NOT a company, and that Microsoft's revenues allow them to pour money into as many charities as they see fit in return for positive PR.

    2/ When you call Apache a "web browser", stating your ignorance of any Linux related matters, not just a browser, but a "third-party browser", maybe you can explain to us what the first and second party browsers are. When you foolishly state that to name a web server platform "Apache" consitutes to steal the indentity of native Americans, maybe you would like to give us a list of the words never to be used again because they define a race? Apache is also a helicopter in the US army, what do you think about that?

    3/ When you tell us that the user base for Linux is mostly wealthy white men. Well, I may be white, but like millions of other Linux users, I am far from wealthy (Linux is mostly distributed freely, fact that you seem to ignore), is my sin to be a Linux user? Or to be white?

    4/ When you acuse Mandrake and Red Hat of not distributing free copies of their software to kids. Well, both these Linux distributions can be obtained free of charge, so I don't think your argument makes any sense.

    5/ When you say that Samba is a racist name. As far as I know, Samba is a type of Brazilian beat, as well as a dance, and nobody saw anything racist in it until you came along.

    Once you get up to speed in the issues that you feel so strongly about in spite of your lack of knowledge, you are welcome to come back and start a decent, rational, facts-based conversation about why Linux is racist.

    Thanks