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E-mail was adapted for ARPANET by Ray Tomlinson of BBN in 1972.
He picked the @ symbol from the available symbols on his teletype to
link the username and address.
About E-Mail
Email is the Killer Application on the Internet.
It is communicating (practically for free) in minutes (if not
seconds) with someone next door or around the world.
Total Number of Email Users in the U.S.
In the US alone, 88% of adult Internet users have personal e-mail
accounts. Further, 46% of them have e-mail access at work. Added
together, eMarketer estimates that 147 million people across the
country use e-mail, almost every day.
Email Marketing Growing; Spam Fading
In a recent DM News article, JupiterReseach analyst David
Daniels' snapshot of the 2006 email-marketing industry shows
spending will grow, while the spam volume continues to fade slowly.
However, email wrongly blocked by ISPs will continue to cost
marketers about $1 for every $9 in an email-marketing budget:
- Spending on email marketing will rise 7.5% this year, from
$885 million in 2005 to $950 million.
- Spam will decrease at a compounded annual rate of 9.4% a
year through 2010 "but will remain a nuisance."
- False positives -- email wrongly blocked at all levels of
the email delivery channel -- will cost marketers $107 million
this year.
- HTML has nearly universal adoption among consumers: A
Jupiter Research consumer survey found just 3% receive only text
email.
- It pays to ask for backup email addresses at registration:
60% of online consumers regularly use two or more email
accounts.
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