Read Write Web is appalled (as are we) at the news that apparently 29% of web using types have bought something as a result of spam email. Can this be true?

I’ve finished the opening paragraph with a question that I can’t actually answer. Nevertheless, it’s the only response viable to such a claim. What’s worse is that RWW have unearthed further research that suggests the percentage is on the rise!

Did you know that roughly 150 billion spam emails are sent everyday? I guess it’s like that Lost Boys line about Michael not liking rice, “how could a billion Chinese people be wrong?” When you are talking those sorts of numbers it has to work at some level, we’re at about 25 spam messages for every person on the planet.

What’s worrying is that RWW writer Marshall Kirkpatrick could be close to the mark with his conclusion that if this latest report is to be believed, then people want spam. If this is the case then I guess I’ll be refusing Viagra, money from Nigerian princes/Iraqi senators and the opportunity to see [insert female celebrity name] doing [insert sex act] for the foreseeable future. Worse luck.