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Junk mail is expensive

10.01.2004

"Junk" emails, better known as "spam", are not so harmless. as it might seem at first glance. According to a survey conducted by Basex, a New York-based company, the total loss of the American economy from spam this year amounted to at least $20 billion.

In large companies, the fight against unsolicited e-mail costs, on average, 600...1000 USD per year per user. It is these funds that go to the salaries of IT specialists, maintaining mail filters, paying for "extra" traffic, clearing user mailboxes and other actions related to spam protection.

It must be assumed that the indicated amount does not include the loss of working time of those unfortunates who, after all these tricks, find "junk" mail in their working mailboxes.

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