Interesting Email Facts That You Should Know

1. 160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of them are spam.
2. Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year,
3. enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.
4. 9 out of every 1,000 computers are invected with spam.
5. Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails 
6. They send (yet it still makes them a small profit).
7. The first electronic mail, or "email", was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson.
8. It was also his idea to use the @ sign to separate the name of the user from the name of the computer.
9. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.
10. Some 190 billion emails are sent daily - more than 2 million per second - by 1,2 billion email senders.
11. About 70% (133 billion emails) are spam and viruses.
12. There are about 1,4 billion registered email addresses.