Spam Hurts
The ratio of Spam to legitimate e-mail has reached the halfway mark, according to a company that produces a monthly report on trends in e-mail. MessageLabs said that during July, the company intercepted almost 80 million Spam messages for clients, which is 10 million more than were intercepted during the whole year of 2002. The global ratio is now 50 percent - half of all e-mails are junk mail.
While some people think unsolicited offers are harmless, a company that offers filtering software says that just isn't true.
SurfControl, which put the ratio of e-mail that employees of companies receive to Spam at about a quarter of all business e-mails, said that information technology professionals claim that each Spam message costs a company about $1. That adds up to millions of dollars per company, SurfControl says. At the same time, 90 percent of respondents to the company's survey also said their companies do not train employees on what to do about Spam.
Copyright © 2004 Bankers' Hotline. Originally appeared in Bankers' Hotline, Vol. 13, No. 12, 2/04
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