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In response to "Companies that shirk on desktops agitate the daylights out of me." by David

I tried to use that to justify paying the meagar monthly fee for spam fighting. 80% of email is spam. If you spend 1 second deleting each one, those

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Jun 17 '11, 11:25

seconds add up when you considered we processed 1M emails per month. It worked out to hundreds of man hours per month but yet, no we can't spend the few thousand per year to pay for spam

This was a few jobs and years ago but still...stupid

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don't forget the disaster that occur when you delete a bunch of 'obvious' spams not realizing one of the subjects "hi" is from an actual potential - zeitgeist Jun 17, 11:35
That's exactly the type of thing that drives me nut. People see the expense, not the savings. - David Jun 17, 11:27 3
- this also affects my industry in some more subtle man-hour ways; investing in building a proper test harness is rare. - Beryllium Jun 17, 11:28 2
  - An old computer professor of mine had a fantastic NASA story. - David Jun 17, 11:31 1
    - yeah, that's good stuff. (*cries foul for abuses of public funding!*) -- nm - America's Split Personality Jun 17, 11:32

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