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Spam Costs U.S. Companies $22B Annually
KoReE writes "According to this CNN article, a study at the University of Maryland says the loss of productivity from spam is costing U.S. companies $22 billion per year."
Of course, they also say people get 18.5 spam per day, and I'm tipping in at 20x that.
Since I read about a new spam study every other day, I'm wondering if that $22B price tag includes the cost of all the studies being done about the cost of spam?
Funny, I get about 25 spam messages a day... now that's after the corporate firewall/antispam software has had it's hands in it... and really, any message from my boss is counted as SPAM and moved to my junk folder so, yeah, 0 spam from the world, about 25 spams from my boss... yup... near the average then I guess..
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Yes, well, maybe you'd have less if you weren't publicly providing your email on one of the most viewed forums on the internet.
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That number sounds wrong, how could spam cost anyone billions when all they have to do is hit the delete key!!!
In other news, the replacement keyboard industry has announced increased sales of about $22 billion dollars a year...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
I spent 5 minutes today scratching myself when I got into work. Now if everybody in the world does that, it costs $512823812937123 TRILLION DOLLARS every other minute! Then you'll get angry CEOS who will want to enforce rules to only higher ugly women, or remove them from the work force.
This is just more serious bullshit. If they really want to do a study. See how much money is spent on men looking at women's breasts at work. They will find out that is 123190238127398071273891029837129387 TRILLION DOLLARS EVERY minute.
Do these studies ever take into account that people can't spend every single waking second at work doing work, and that it neccessary to sometimes do something different. Although spam does differ, where it is a nusance, and as such it does waste peoples time constantly. But the way the factor it by putting a value on an employees time is very in accurate.
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
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You're right! We should commission a study to study the effects of Studies on other Studies while they are being studied. It could be the next re-insurance insurance bonanza.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Seems we see these stories about every day or two - 'companies lose $xx billion to such-and-such every year.'
Has anyone added all of these up? With the wild loss estimates from sick days, viruses, spam, major sporting events, bee stings, and Slashdot, I wouldn't be surprised if the world as a whole is running trillions of dollars in the negative...
Well what did you think would happen would you signed up for free sample address labels on freebiecrap.com?
I know it isn't because it was sent by my Mom! I don't know where she gets the time to research so many products, but damn do I ever appreciate it!
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Fortunately for us all, dilligent corporations are applying an old remedy to bring these costs down.
Together, we will drive the rats from the tundra.
The scarier fact is not the fact that some slashdotter came up with that equation in probably about 5 minutes, but the fact that some 9-to-5, liberal arts grad lemming working in some downtown office building was actually paid to come up with the same thing, and probably took the better part of 5 months to get there.
Average spam per day .. 18.5
.. 10 seconds
.. Priceless
Time to read each one
Having a bigger penis