spam:cost_of_spam
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| * Added Bandwidth and Storage Expenses. | * Added Bandwidth and Storage Expenses. | ||
| - | * Lost Productivity. | + | * Management Costs and Lost Productivity. |
| * Unreasonable Anti-Spam Filtering and Software Costs. | * Unreasonable Anti-Spam Filtering and Software Costs. | ||
| - | * Disaster Recovery Expenses. | + | * Safety and Disaster Recovery Expenses. |
| + | * Environmental Impact. | ||
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| Shelling out for more of each—because individual file sizes keep growing. | Shelling out for more of each—because individual file sizes keep growing. | ||
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| + | Spending more money to store untold gigabytes of worthless messages not going to be read. | ||
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| - | ===== Lost Productivity ===== | + | ===== Management Costs and Lost Productivity ===== |
| With the uptick in email being sent, trying to keep up with the volume in inboxes is difficult and time consuming. | With the uptick in email being sent, trying to keep up with the volume in inboxes is difficult and time consuming. | ||
| + | Even if only a few seconds is spent to get rid of each unopened spam message, it adds up to minutes a day, hours a month, and days a year, all dedicated to hitting that **delete** button. | ||
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| + | Spam creates an unnecessary expense. | ||
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| + | Lost time is lost revenue. | ||
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| + | It is suggested that 15 seconds on average is used to process each spam email. | ||
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| + | ===== Unreasonable Anti-Spam Filtering and Software Costs ===== | ||
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| + | It is expensive maintaining a server; and spam is increasing this spend. | ||
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| + | ===== Safety and Disaster Recovery Expenses ===== | ||
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| + | Phishing emails are getting more dangerous all the time as hackers and spammers come up with new ways to get around anti-spam defenses. | ||
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| + | Some people may be savvy enough to avoid falling for phishing tricks, but just one errant click could set off a chain of events that leads to a data breach. | ||
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| + | If these spam emails were not received, then the mailbox would be cleaner with less risk of being caught out. | ||
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| + | ===== Environmental Impact ===== | ||
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| + | Not just extra energy costs to the receiver of these emails, but there is also a recognized environmental impact to spam, marketing and advertisements. | ||
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