CNN.com – Study: Spam costing companies $22 billion a year – Feb 3, 2005

CNN.com Study: Spam costing companies $22 billion a year – Feb 3, 2005 (20):

Time wasted deleting junk e-mail costs American businesses nearly $22 billion a year, according to a new study from the University of Maryland.

A telephone-based survey of adults who use the Internet found that more than three-quarters receive spam daily. The average spam messages per day is 18.5 and the average time spent per day deleting them is 2.8 minutes.

Technology tax, as Garrett (2) calls it.

{blows against the empire}