"Spam accounts for 45% of all e-mails,
or 15 billion messages every day, and costs business world-wide
a total of $20 billion a year in lost productivity and technology
expenses, according to the Radicati Group, a market research firm
in Palo Alto, CA. The firm predicts the number of daily spams
will rise to more than 50 billion by 2007, and costs will reach
almost $200 billion per year."
--Wall Street Journal, August 2003
Nine out of 10 U.S. Emails Now
Spam
"Spam skyrocketed worldwide last month, and peaked in the
United States where nine out of 10 emails now are spam.
Around the globe, spam grew in May to account
for 76 percent of all email traveling the Internet, according
to statistics just released by MessageLabs, Inc., an email management
and security company based in New York. That number is up from
60 percent at the beginning of the year."
June 9, 2004
Sharon Gaudin - EnterpriseITPlanet.com