- Spam: annoying but lucrative -

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"Where there's muck, there's brass."

English proverb.

- Spam: annoying but lucrative -

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Madrid, November 19 2003 - The Register has reported an interesting study by

Telus International(*) reveling the profitability of spamming, despite the

fact that only 50 in every million recipients take the bait.

According to this report, response rates barely reach 0.005%. This means

that for every one person interested in receiving the information, there are

around 20,000 people wasting time downloading, reading and deleting the

message, not to mention the waste of resources (bandwidth, storage space,

etc.).

Despite these low success rates, spamming is still a profitable activity as,

unlike postal mail, mass-emailing is extremely cheap. In fact if only one in

a million replied, it would still be cost effective, the survey concludes.

At present there is no global solution for unsolicited mail, although the

war is being fought on many fronts: law-makers, ISPs, and developers of

anti-spam tools for servers and end-users. Panda Software is also involved

in the fight against spam and has recently launched a new family of

solutions to protect against viruses and other Internet threats including

spam.

More information on Panda Software's new family of solutions is available

at: http://www.pandasoftware.com

(*) More info from: http://www.telusinternational.com/Download/spam.pdf

NOTE: The addresses above may not show up on your screen as single lines.

This would prevent you from using the links to access the web pages. If this

happens, just use the 'cut' and 'paste' options to join the pieces of the

URL.

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