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Workers Return to Inboxes Full of Spam

by Tim Stevens on January 5, 2009 at 10:10 AM

For those of you lucky enough to take a few weeks off at the end of the year, today may very well be your first day back to the office. If so, chances are it isn't just a case of the Mondays that's got you down this morning -- you may have found that your inbox didn't take any time off, and is now bursting to capacity with unwanted spam.

It's being dubbed a "spamalanch" by communications consulting firm Expert Messaging, who estimate that e-mail power users may have over 3,000 unread messages awaiting them this morning, 70-percent of which would be spam. That's a daunting prospect, but it seems a bit unrealistic to us -- who could really go two weeks without at least checking their e-mail? [From: Mail Online]

Tags: holidays, inbox, spam, spamalanch, vacation

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TVGeniusJan 5th 2009 10:51AM

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Having a couple issues to monitor over my 2 week break, I checked my work email every two days or so. Each time I had right at a full screen (50) of spam to delete. Judging from my trash, looks like about 470 messages in 17 days.

I'm just glad they upgraded our Exchange webmail client right before break, since we didn't have 'Check All' before..

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MadMikeJan 5th 2009 12:04PM

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My employer uses a spam filter which is very effective. Maybe, Maybe 1 or 2 messages a month get past. That and I have a blackberry, so I check my mail very frequently.

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