How annoyed are people about spam?
77 percent of Yahoo! Mail poll respondents said they are more aggravated by weeding through spam than they are by cleaning a dirty toilet. 1
Spam is already considered more annoying than junk postal mail and door-to-door salespeople, and it is quickly becoming as annoying as telemarketing calls. 1 Most annoying forms of spam are as follows:
Telemarketing calls
Spam e-mail
Door-to-door salespeople
Junk postal mail
Three-quarters of e-mail users think spammers should be punished, with the majority favoring stiff fines as the ideal punishment , while 8 percent think spammers should do jail time. 1
How spam affects trust
With the increase in spam, people are not comfortable giving out their primary e-mail address:
When purchasing products online: 45 percent
When subscribing to a newsletter: 56 percent
When joining an online community: 72 percent 2
As a way to control spam, one out of three survey respondents would feel more comfortable conducting online transactions with a disposable e-mail address.
How users are helping spammmers
48 percent of e-mail users still think that they can unsubscribe from spam by responding to spammers. 1 (You should only unsubscribe from a unsolicited email if you know and trust the sender.)
35 percent of e-mail users still post their addresses on message boards. 1 (Use an
AddressGuard™ disposable address when posting online to protect your primary address from being harvested by a spammer.)
Why is junk email called spam? The history of spamÂ…
Unsolicited email earned the name "spam" because it resembled a Monty Python skit where a chorus of Vikings drowned out other sounds by singing "spam, spam, spam."
Early digital marketing pioneers contend that spam is actually an acronym for Simultaneously Posted Advertising Message.
The first spam email may have been sent in 1978 by a Digital Equipment Corporation salesperson to announce a product presentation. Source: The New York Times, February 9, 2003.
1. Internal Yahoo! data based on 28,000 Yahoo! Mail survey respondents, August 2003
2. Harris Interactive Survey, September 2003
(Source :http://antispam.yahoo.com/funfacts
Copied as it is , no offence meant , information is worth sharing ..Thanks Yahoo)
77 percent of Yahoo! Mail poll respondents said they are more aggravated by weeding through spam than they are by cleaning a dirty toilet. 1
Spam is already considered more annoying than junk postal mail and door-to-door salespeople, and it is quickly becoming as annoying as telemarketing calls. 1 Most annoying forms of spam are as follows:
Telemarketing calls
Spam e-mail
Door-to-door salespeople
Junk postal mail
Three-quarters of e-mail users think spammers should be punished, with the majority favoring stiff fines as the ideal punishment , while 8 percent think spammers should do jail time. 1
How spam affects trust
With the increase in spam, people are not comfortable giving out their primary e-mail address:
When purchasing products online: 45 percent
When subscribing to a newsletter: 56 percent
When joining an online community: 72 percent 2
As a way to control spam, one out of three survey respondents would feel more comfortable conducting online transactions with a disposable e-mail address.
How users are helping spammmers
48 percent of e-mail users still think that they can unsubscribe from spam by responding to spammers. 1 (You should only unsubscribe from a unsolicited email if you know and trust the sender.)
35 percent of e-mail users still post their addresses on message boards. 1 (Use an
AddressGuard™ disposable address when posting online to protect your primary address from being harvested by a spammer.)
Why is junk email called spam? The history of spamÂ…
Unsolicited email earned the name "spam" because it resembled a Monty Python skit where a chorus of Vikings drowned out other sounds by singing "spam, spam, spam."
Early digital marketing pioneers contend that spam is actually an acronym for Simultaneously Posted Advertising Message.
The first spam email may have been sent in 1978 by a Digital Equipment Corporation salesperson to announce a product presentation. Source: The New York Times, February 9, 2003.
1. Internal Yahoo! data based on 28,000 Yahoo! Mail survey respondents, August 2003
2. Harris Interactive Survey, September 2003
(Source :http://antispam.yahoo.com/funfacts
Copied as it is , no offence meant , information is worth sharing ..Thanks Yahoo)
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