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themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 1416
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 4, 2005 - 2:41 pm: | 
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I saw that in the paper today.
Let me say that I don't believe it, and I've always wanted to do an experiment where you add all of the costs you find in stories like that - employee absenteeism costs $X billion per year, insurance fraud costs the economy $y billion per year, identity theft, hurricanes, depression, power outages, snowstorms, hangovers, etc. I bet you'd be above the GNP in no times. |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2483
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 4, 2005 - 2:58 pm: |
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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5354
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 4, 2005 - 4:03 pm: |
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In around 1990, when I was working at AT&T, we used to get a lot of interoffice mail from the company itself, on paper. Being a high tech company that was using email more than others at the time, some employees said the company should stop sending us paper and should instead send us email, so it would be easier to deal with.
Careful what you ask for. You may just get it. |
notehead
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Username: Notehead
Post Number: 2010
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 4, 2005 - 4:06 pm: |
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Themp, I completely agree. While I detest spam, I can't accept the figures about how much "productivity" is lost because of it. I think the concept of "thresholds" is never taken into consideration. Yes, I get about 100 spam emails a day, but the minute or two that I spend deleting them most likely comes out of the time I would otherwise spend reading the news. If it required 20 minutes then, yes, it might impact the amount of work I get done -- but more likely it would just reduce the number of posts I put up on MOL! |
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