90% Of E-Mail Will Be Spam By Year's End

90% Of E-Mail Will Be Spam By Year's End

In terms of my own situation, I don't find this report that far off. I'd have to say at least 80% of the email I receive is spam. No matter what I do as far as rules and spam filters is concerned, they still get through. Also, one needs to dig through the spam in the spam bin in order to make sure legitimate email didn't inadvertently get sent there.

I have to set aside at least 10 minutes a day to deal with it. Imagine if that was the average amount of time that was spent by someone doing this task. Take that 10 minutes a day and multiply that by 365. That's 3650 minutes a year spent dealing with it, or about 60 hours a year. Now, assume that there are, at least, 25,000,000 people that use email regularly in the U.S. That's 1,500,000,000 hours a year wasted.

Of course that is a completely unscientific example and has absolutely no facts to back it up, but it does illustrate how much time can potentially be wasted dealing with spam.