[LINK] It's a mail world

[Adam Todd]

> >> It's a mail world
> >> Estimates of the average number of email messages received perperson
> >> per day
> >>  range from about 30 to 50. One survey suggests thenumber of emails
> >> being
> >>  sent is increasing by more than 80 per centeach year. The inbox is
> >> http://newsletters.fairfax.com.au/cgi-bin16/DM/y/elcw0Owiki0JhK0BvVE0EO
>
>That's amazing, given that the vast majority of people on this planet don't
>have electricity and have never even used a telephone.
>
>Oh, by "person" they mean "rich, educated, Western person with a computer,
>electricity, telecommunications and an email account." Yes of course. Those
>other "persons" aren't really "persons" at all. I mean, they don't feature
>on "The OC", do they?

NO, actually, Stil, if you take into account SPAM at around 300+ a day per 
mail box, you could easily take the worlds population in total, divided by 
the number of delivered e-mail messages, add in a stack of bounce messages 
from the spam as well and 50-80 per day is probably about right :)