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-----Original Message----- From: David Lum <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:44:49 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Subject: On another front - social networking killing e-mail... http://blog.pgp.com/index.php/2009/12/will-facebook-kill-email/ I laughed "hahah no way" at the title, but then I read this line: "I have to admit I didn't see his point until I read a headline recently indicating that 92% of global email traffic is now spam. The fact that most email is junk isn't news as the percent of measured spam has been hovering around 90% for quite some time. The fact that spam has dominated the email landscape for so long is helping to drive some interesting user behaviors, however. We're starting to see reports that some users (mostly young) are giving up email entirely in favor of social media. While I think many email users will have problems doing this, it makes a certain amount of sense.." At my IT Garage clients SPAM hovers around 95-96% and if you think about it, using social networking messaging is very much like having a "deny all except specifically whitelisted senders". Thoughts and comments welcome! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
