Re: More than 95% of e-mail is 'junk'

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Valdis Kletnieks to Dude VanWinkle:

> > More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or
> > viruses, report mail monitoring firms.
>
> Ted Sturgeon quoted as saying: "See? I *told* you so..."

If we were to pick nits here, I'd say that Spaf's corollary was more 
relevant (allowing that we extend his use of "Usenet" to "the Internet" 
or similar):

   Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) applies to Usenet.

   Corollary: Nothing guarantees that the 10% isn't crap, too.


For more, see:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Spafford



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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