SURVIVOR CYBERSPACE: OUTWIT OUTLAST OUTDELETE

Posted by Douglas Sorocco, February 8, 2004 at 4:03 pm
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SURVIVOR CYBERSPACE: OUTWIT OUTLAST OUTDELETE

Interesting story in PC Magazine entitled "Can Email Survive?"  In general, the article discusses the ups and downs of email in 2003.  The money quote:

According to a recent study by Ferris Research, a San Francisco firm that follows the messaging market, users waste an hour each week managing their e-mail. And only 9 minutes of that hour are related to spam and viruses.

Since email has basically eliminated the use of the telephone for short (and not-so-short messaging and information exchange), the exponential rise in the use of spam blocking software has consequently caused the loss of information when non-spam email is blocked as well.  For example, many of the "spam originator lists" blacklist entire ISPs for blocking.  If a client or colleague is using that ISP for their email service, the spam blocking software would keep the email from reaching you. 

 

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