Spam Gets 1 Response Per 12,500,000 Emails

A new study, by a team of seven computer scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD, has shown that spam gets 1 response per 12,500,000 emails. They reached this figure by infiltrating a spam network (the Storm botnet) and controlling 75,869 machines. "After 26 days, and almost 350 million email messages, only 28 sales resulted."