This is anal.
I hate spam.
i wonder how much my company has lost b/c of my time at freerepublic?
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.
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.
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.
now children....can we all say firewall?
I have 300 user email accounts on my network and for the last year or so I was averaging around 3000 spams a day - which is "reasonable" in the context of a modern day network. But in Janurary that number sky rocketed to 27000-30000 a day.
The dictionary attacks against my Exchange server would shoot up to 80000 on weekends. Given that my software spam-filter was on the Exchange server, the machine was being taxed-out 24 hours a day: between receiving the email, evaluating it and kicking back a non-delivery report X 30000 times a day we were starting to periodically lose legitimate email.
Yesterday I put a trial Barracuda Spam Firewall between my Symantec SGS 5420 and Exchange server. From all appearances the spam hits on the server immediately dropped and the torrent of "No Such Account" emails to my Bad Mail Folder stemmed to a trickle.
When he sent me the evaluation "Barracuda", my network supplier didn't even try to "sell" me on it. He just said he'd send me a fresh unit out of the box, I'd install it and a couple days later I'd call him back for the bill. Just from looking at it a couple hours I'm thinking he's right. He said he's sent out about 30 evaluation units and none of them have been returned.
Frankly, at this point spam has gone from being an annoyance to literally becoming a purposeful attack on computer networks and should be treated as such. The government should be going after spammers the same way they go after virus writers.
I wonder how much time "zoning out" costs American businesses?
This is the really scary part. Even if the "study" is 300% off and only ONE percent of the spammed respond with cash, the economics are still working very strongly in the spammers' favor which means the inundation will go on.