There's another issue with non-business-related email that wasn't brought up in that link. A few years ago we started noticing that on many days 50% or more of our internal SMTP traffic consisted of joke/inspirational attachments. We've since started quarantining/bouncing offending attachments and have seen noticeable improvement in performance. I'm surprised that virus vendors haven't started including these attachments in their signatures. In some respects they're worse than viruses, since sizes tend to be 1 MB or more.
Ya, I need to smack around some people I know who send me that kind of sh--t... er crap.
I would think the email admin's could just send out an email to all employees... "Personal emails are fine, just stop forwarding the chain emails!"
(shaking head)
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