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Re: Zombie plague sweeps the internet

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____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 05 September 2008 00:31 : \____

>> This explains why over 120 billion items SPAM circulate per day. That's
>> enough to feed every human on the planet over 20 "Delete presses" per day.
>>
>> What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!
> 
> Assuming 450,000 zombots, that works out to 4.8 messages per second
> per bot.

IIRC, only 10 million are actively used per day (they shuffle pools). The other
ones are 'on notice'.

- -- 
"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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