Estimated cost of junk email or "spam" to Irish businesses: "over £230 million a year".
of the Irish people surveyed,
69% receive up to five spam emails a day
14% receive six to 30 spam emails a day
in dealing with these emails,
74% said they wasted up to 15 minutes a day reading, deleting, filing or responding to spam and an amazing 10% wasted an hour doing the same only 6% use software filters
Source: Novell/Benchmark Research Limited[N O]); 2 Financial Times
