Salon.com Technology | Anti-virus company targets spam
Spam accounted for about 40 percent of Internet e-mail during 2002, up from 8 percent in 2001, according to Brightmail Inc., which provides filtering products for several major Internet service providers.
The rest of the article is negligable, but 40 percent?! Woah.
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dave
January 7th, 2003 at 8:05 am
Based on my inboxes, both personal and business, I’d say that’s a conservative figure.
Along those same lines, there was an Associated Press article yesterday which said:
“A study to be released Monday attempts to quantify the annual cost of spam: $8.9 billion for U.S. corporations, $2.5 billion for European businesses and another $500 million for U.S. and European service providers. “
The dollar estimates were based on the lost productivity time it takes to wade through junk mail to find legitimate mail, as well as deleting the junk mail, and the extra hardware and increased bandwidth large corporations have to buy to handle the influx of junk mail.
Scary stuff.
Jake
January 9th, 2003 at 1:35 pm
40% is a CONSERVATIVE estimate.