Bounced Emails Costing Businesses $5 Billion A Year

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Bounced Emails Costing Businesses $5 Billion A Year

04-24-2006, 10:17 AM,

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Bounced Emails Costing Businesses $5 Billion A Year

Quote:It may not get the same play as spam but bounced e-mail messages cost mailers a fortune, a new study found. E-mail senders lose $5 billion annually, and bounces make up 9 percent of all "hostile mail," a category that includes spam, viruses and phishing e-mails, according to the study conducted by gateway security company IronPort Systems.

IronPort, San Bruno, CA, examined global e-mail traffic using its SenderBase network and found that only 20 percent of e-mail is legitimate...

full article: http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot...e_id=36570

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