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Thursday, July 18, 2002

http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/469100p-3750583c.html

Study shows spammed e-mail messages seldom get response
Agence France-Presse

If you hope to get a good response from an emailed question, send it to one individual at a time rather than en masse, a study reported in New Scientist says. The research, by Technion technology institute in Haifa, Israel, gives scientific backing to what everyone has suspected for years - the more people you copy an email to, the likelier it will be ignored. The researchers set up a Yahoo! account for a fictitious student called Sarah Feldman and wrote an email from her to 240 researchers, students and administrative staff, asking whether the school had a biology faculty....

 


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