While returning to work after Christmas was a chore for most of us, New Year was made all the worse for this IT manager--by the fact that his mail server had received more than a quarter of a million unsolicited emails during the festive period--racking up 262,977 unwanted e-mails between Dec. 20, 2002 and Jan. 2, 2003.
Anybody despairing at the amount of spam they're receiving in their inbox may do well to consider the plight of one UK IT manager who has had to deal with around 500,000 unsolicited e-mails in just two months.
silicon.com was contacted by the IT manager of a UK firm who wished to remain anonymous ealier this week. Since November 2002, his company has been inundated with a barrage of spam, at the rate of around 8,500 e-mails per day.
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