Reporting on a study which found that as many as thirty-nine percent of all e-mail users admit to clicking on the links contained in spam, the news site The Inquirer has christened the spam link clickers “e-mail retards.”

Interestingly, the report, put out by Radicati Group, is the same report that earlier this year prompted Information Week to say that e-mail users are ignorant.

What is it about the Radicati Group that engenders such animosity towards e-mail users?

Radicati’s public statements seem perfectly reasonable. Says Marcel Nienhuis, a market anaylst with Radicati, “If the promotion in the spam sounds too good to be true, it probably is. User education and implementation of smart practices when dealing with spam, such as not opening unidentified messages, will be crucial in discouraging spammers. If people stop buying products from spam, spam would probably go away.”

No name-calling there.

So what is it?

And no matter what it is, “retards”…

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