Posted on 02/04/2005 4:50:28 AM PST by billorites
Time wasted deleting junk e-mail costs American businesses nearly $22 billion a year, according to a new study from the University of Maryland.
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A telephone-based survey of adults who use the Internet found that more than three-quarters receive spam daily. The average spam messages per day is 18.5 and the average time spent per day deleting them is 2.8 minutes.
The loss in productivity is equivalent to $21.6 billion per year at average U.S. wages, according to the National Technology Readiness Survey produced by Rockbridge Associates, Inc., and the Center for Excellence in Service at Maryland's business school.
The study, to be released Thursday, also found that 14 percent of spam recipients actually read messages to see what they say, and 4 percent of the recipients have bought something advertised through spam within the past year.
The random survey of 1,000 U.S. adults was conducted in November and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
This is anal.
It's some poor schmoo's Master's Thesis.
I hate spam.
i wonder how much my company has lost b/c of my time at freerepublic?
So.....you like spam?
Oh PLEASE. I realize spam is a problem that needs to be addressed in some manner but this 'study' is equivalent to one detailing how many business dollars are lost to nose picking.
Ridiculous.
None. You're a smarter and better employee now.
I dont understand it.....If your address isnt in my address book....I dont get anything from you.....! Its not hard if your not interested.
I'd like to know how that 1/4 avoid getting daily spam.
Spamming = nose picking. Hmmm.....
Make that "deleting" spam = nose picking.
I have doubts about the correctness of this study.
A $30 Mailwasher program can eliminate a high percentage of spam. Most businesses, if they have an IT with have a brain-cell, have filtering programs already.
You got that I liked spam because I think this is a stupidly anal waste of time report. It's nothing more than spam itself.
I'm not sure, but I think it's possible to delete spam with one hand while picking your nose with the other.
Mailwasher has been well worth $30.
Only for the most talented of us.
now children....can we all say firewall?
I was just askin'.:-)
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