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AOL chokes on millions of email messages

On the 1st of June, AOL fell because of a "software bug" that prohibited any email to be sent or received by the millions of subscribers to the giant ISP. After an unspecified time (visibly less than 24 hours), the operation could be restored.

It seems that there was no email lost. The very old but robust email protocols and the huge equipment of AOL allowed the queuing of received and sent messages. So it was only a delay for the messages of most users. They are churning 500,000 messages per minute to correct the situation.

Source: Roumazeilles.net

694 millions

This is the number of Internet users aged more than 15, as evaluated by comScore Networks, but excluding cybercafes and portable phones.

France has 23,8 millions users, while USA still has 152 millions and China already totals 74,7 millions.

Smut SPAM is fine

That's the obvious conclusion after looking at the recent figures published by CypherTrust and Infosec. 1 SPAM out of 20 leads to money spending when it is about porn (pornography) or erotica.

Very few marketers dream of such conversion rates. Notably, pharmaceutical products reach about 0,02% and fake Rolex and other watches fall to 0,0075%. But if you remember that they send tens of millions of SPAM messages, these email convert into sizeable turnover figures.

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