11800

[lefteyewilly]

Unread emails from an old yahoo account. wowza

Screen from a few minutes after i started deleting...

[gerbick]

That's a ton of spam.

[jAQUAN]

1 ton exactly? I wonder what the conversion ratio is of email spam to the real salty beast.

[gerbick]

I'd like to see this broken down... mathematically.

[silverx2]

if the average spammer sends out 1 million of a single spam email. And say 1% responds

Factor how much it cost to send out those emails, and how much money was gained from the 1% of responses.

Find the net profit

How many cans of spam could you get with said profit.

[dudeqwerty]

No, that's not how the conversion would work.

You would see how much storage space that many messages take up, then get the weight of that many harddrives. Which give you the amount of spam.

I can't be bothered to look up which drives Yahoo uses, but I know Google uses 80GB harddrives for their servers (or at least used to). So lets use that capacity for the example.

According to this article the average spam message size is 11kB.

80GB = 83886080 kB

83886080 / 11 = 7626007.27 average length spam emails.

A harddrive is about a kilogram in mass.

Seeing as it would take 7614207.27 more spam emails to fill the harddrive, you don't even have a kilo's worth of spam.

[gerbick]

...nerds.

[silverx2]

No, that's not how the conversion would work.

You would see how much storage space that many messages take up, then get the weight of that many harddrives. Which give you the amount of spam.

I can't be bothered to look up which drives Yahoo uses, but I know Google uses 80GB harddrives for their servers (or at least used to). So lets use that capacity for the example.

According to this article the average spam message size is 11kB.

80GB = 83886080 kB

83886080 / 11 = 7626007.27 average length spam emails.

A harddrive is about a kilogram in mass.

Seeing as it would take 7614207.27 more spam emails to fill the harddrive, you don't even have a kilo's worth of spam.

this is the stupidest idea ever.

Who the F cares how much a spam email weighs, Its what its worth thats important. bandwidth costs, server costs, the time it take a person to delete it/read it.

a single spam email is worth at least 2 cans of spam.

[dudeqwerty]

Well actually seeing as the question was "... 1 ton exactly?"

It was stupid then to start trying to calculate the monetary worth of spam, when the question at hand was to do with mass.

Currency and mass are two completely incomparable concepts. It's like asking "What is 10 $ in kg?" - a stupid question.

[jAQUAN]

I concur with both assertions. While the most logical determination of mass makes sense to think about the total weight in hardware, not all drives are created equal and you could go back and forth on weather you factor in the HD as a whole or just the platters. On the other hand, a more direct correlation is the cost effectiveness of both industries in which case I would consider:
average cost per spam email * total pieces of spam in inbox = x number of cans of Spam that could have been purchased according to its global average cost per container.

My apologies to the flying circus.

[silverx2]

jaquan has the correct answer, im sure he also noticed the gorilla.

[mehmet22]

How long was this email left unchecked?

[lefteyewilly]

2/25/08

[MikeInkJunior]

and you got 10,311? Unread? Now the question is how many spam messages did you actually read?

There is a group that has at least 250,000 followers a month that allow spam messages in their email..

ooh that 250 complimentary business cards sounds too good to be true