What damage does spam cause?
The damage caused by spam is not always clearly quantifiable. It falls into the following categories: • Lost productive time To identify spam mail, users must at least take a quick look at the message. Especially semi-professionally designed ad mail requires a closer look to identify it as spam. Modern mail clients, such as Outlook and Notes, can signal new mail as it arrives, and unwanted messages cause significant distraction and interruption of the workflow on these systems. The weblinks embedded in many ad mails – which cause the contents of a web page to appear in the message body window – are an additional annoyance. They aim to animate the reader to surf the web, try out games, etc. • Utilization of storage capacity Spam uses up a significant amount of the storage capacity of mail servers and archiving systems. The volume of ad mail, combined with a large number of users, results in a utilization of more than 50 percent of the system`s storage capacity. • Recipient verification
