Spam costs businesses $13 billion annually. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).A British e-mail filtering Email filtering is the processing of e-mail to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to artificial intelligence, and to firm reports that there will be more spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). than real e-mail in 2003 and that it will cost businesses billions. MessageLabs Software's annual statistics also revealed that one in every 212 e-mails contains a computer virus. MessageLabs, which sorts though 10 million e-mails daily and inspects more than three billion e-mails a year, says that an average of one in 12 e-mails was spam in 2002. But by November 2002, one in three e-mails was spam. Because of that trend, the firm predicts that spam will outpace out·pace tr.v. out·paced, out·pac·ing, out·pac·es To surpass or outdo (another), as in speed, growth, or performance. outpace Verb [-pacing, real e-mail this year. Mark Sunner, MessageLabs' chief technology officer, said the increase is a result of technology improvements that have made spammers' jobs easier. For example, he said, you can buy e-mail appliance A device that is specialized for accessing e-mail. Pocket-sized models are designed for portability, while desktop models are geared for ease of use and eliminate the need to turn a computer on and launch an e-mail program just to check mail. boxes that will send millions of e-mails an hour. Industry experts estimate that about one-third of the more than 73 billion e-mails sent every day are unwanted commercial pitches. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent Jupiter Research study, the average amount of spam received per user each day has nearly doubled from 3.7 to 6.2 e-mails per day. While personal e-mail accounts e-mail account n → cuenta de correo often are deluged with spare, however, most unsolicited commercial messages don't reach work-based e-mail accounts. But those that do are costly. A recent Ferris Research study found that spam costs U.S. corporations $8.9 billion annually, $2.5 billion for European businesses, and another $500 million for U.S. and European service providers. On average, it takes 4.4 seconds to deal with a message, the study says that spam adds up to $4 billion in lost productivity for U.S. businesses each year. Another $3.7 billion is a result of companies having to buy more powerful servers and more bandwidth as well as diverting staff time. The rest can be attributed to companies providing help-desk support to annoyed users. The costs are less in Europe because spam isn't as big a problem. But in the future, analysts say they may have to figure in the costs of wireless spam, a growing problem in Europe due to the popularity of text messaging Sending short messages to a smartphone, pager, PDA or other handheld device. Text messaging implies sending short messages generally no more than a couple of hundred characters in length. . |
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