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Price Tag of Spam Reflected in Significant Lost Productivity

As a follow-up to my posting on February 1, Junk Email Careens Out of Law’s Control, more bad news about the spam explosion in a survey released by the Center for Excellence in Service at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. According to the press release, “Spam’s price tag now reaches $21.58 billion annually in lost productivity,” and in the aggregate, “22.9 million hours a week are wasted on spam.”

  • 2004 National Technology Readiness Survey, Summary Report, February 3, 2005 (17 pages, PDF)
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