Fair enough... my point is that I don't believe that the cost of
networking and hardware can be ignored... and I don't believe it to be
inconsequential.
Eric
Mark Delany wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:28:18PM -0600, Eric S. Imsand allegedly wrote:
I do not believe that the cost comes from people spending time
cleaning out there inboxes.
I don't have the spam statistics sitting by my side, but if we assume
that each spam message takes 500 bytes - 1Kbyte, and each employee
receives 50 spams a day, that is between 25-50Kbytes of space eaten up
by spam, per day. The company I work for employs 20 people, so that's
roughly 500 Kbytes - 1Mbyte per day devoted to spam storage.
The sums are pretty straightforward.
Yo say 20 people at 2 minutes per day = 160 hours per year of "just
hit delete". Even at $10 per hour per person that's a cost of $1,600
per year. And, I'll bet most of your people cost more than $10 per
hour. Let's allow for that and make the total $2,000 per year.
The alternative cost you say is 365MB of disk space per year. Given
that a 40GB disk can be readily had for less than $100. That makes
your disk costs around $10 to $20 per year.
So, your human cost is close to $2,000 and your disk cost is close to
$20.
Regards.
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