Spam Cost Calculator
“Spam accounts for 45% of all e-mails, or 15 billion messages every day, and costs business world-wide a total of $20 billion a year in lost productivity and technology expenses, according to the Radicati Group, a market research firm in Palo Alto, CA. The firm predicts the number of daily spams will rise to more than 50 billion by 2007, and costs will reach almost $200 billion per year.”
–Wall Street Journal, August 2003
There is no doubt that spam is growing at an alarming rate in both personal and corporate inboxes. According to the Radicati Group, spam accounts for 45% of all emails and that number is expected to continue increasing. That’s just simply astounding and unacceptable.
Spam Cost Calculator
function Do_Calc () { var f = document.spam_calc;
var hourly_salary = f.year_salary.value / 240 / 8;
f.user_prod_lost.value = Math.round ( ( ( f.email_users.value * 0.1 * f.spam_per_user.value * f.year_count.value * hourly_salary ) / 60 ) * 240 );
f.store_cost.value = Math.round ( ( ( ( f.email_users.value * f.spam_per_user.value * /* Msg Size */ 19000) / 1048576 ) * /* Storage MB */ .35 ) * /* Days msg stored */ 3 * 365 * f.year_count.value * /* Intl Factor */ 1 );
f.mgmt_cost.value = Math.round ( ( /* IT mgmt time */ 10 / 60) * hourly_salary * /* Annual work days */ 240 * f.year_count.value * /* Intl factor */ 1 );
f.downtime_cost.value = Math.round ( hourly_salary * /* Potential downtime */ 1 * 12 * f.year_count.value * /* Intl Factor */ 1 );
f.total.value = Math.round ( f.user_prod_lost.value ) + Math.round ( f.store_cost.value ) + Math.round ( f.mgmt_cost.value ) + Math.round ( f.downtime_cost.value ); }