Facts About Email

•        160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of them are spam.

•        Ray Tomlinson was first person to hit send on a network e-mail message.

•        It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from            the name of the computer.

•        “123456″ is the all-time most popular choice for protecting our precious                  online correspondence.

•        Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still                makes them a small profit).

•        Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.

•        Some 190 billion emails are sent daily – more than 2 million per second – by           1,2 billion email senders.

•        About 70% (133 billion emails) are spam and viruses.

•        There are about 1,4 billion registered email addresses.

•        The average business user receives 25 email messages per day.