Spam's effect on Business

• IDC estimates that spam represented 32% of all email sent on an average day in North America in 2003
• Anti-spam solutions have helped organizations save millions of dollars in lost email user and IT staff productivity.
• 62% say their employers use filters to block spam from their work email accounts; half of them get no spam at all in those accounts.
• Calculated on a worldwide basis, the IT cost of dealing with spam will rise from $20.5 billion in 2003, to approximately $198 billion by 2007.