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Title: Your Spam Calculator! Post by: shellyb on July 12, 2004, 01:26:22 pm I am sitting here with my mouth hanging open, I just used your Spam calculator and find that spam according to it, is costing our 15 man department nearly 23K a year! Can you tell me how these figures were arrived at so when I share this with my boss I can speak intelligently about it? That's a whole person! That's the Admin help I've been asking him for that we don't have the funding to get! I need Ammo! Gimmie!
Shel Title: Re: Your Spam Calculator! Post by: andream on July 12, 2004, 04:01:09 pm Dear Shelly, thanks for the kind words, we're glad you find the information useful. The formula which our team used to create the calculator, relies on some industry stand information about the size of an email etc, the actual formula looks like this:
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 ); (Raj, our technical wizard has produced a broken down formula based on 1 email for 1 user) below to help explain the above:) calculator assumption Msg size =19000 kb spam email size =.35 MB 1Mb cost =3 Megabyte = 1048576 if email user=1 spam mail per day =1 year =1 store_size = (1*1*19000)/1048576)*.35 = 0.00634… cost per mail = 0.00634 *3 =0.0190 per year = 0.0190 * 365 = 6.9444 = 7 And Then the caculator weighs that information against the average salary informaion you've put in for your company or department and breaks down those costs again for the final total. According to Raj, it's "just simple math". :) Yeah uh huh right! Title: Re: Your Spam Calculator! Post by: Jackie G on July 12, 2004, 05:54:43 pm Golly you lost me at the first line!
Jackie, Peer Moderator www.iqps.org Title: Re: Your Spam Calculator! Post by: chris68 on July 12, 2004, 06:31:38 pm Me too Jackie, but we're looking into getting heavier security at the office to reduce Spam too so this is very interesting and timely.
Title: Re: Your Spam Calculator! Post by: andream on July 12, 2004, 09:28:46 pm ohh hold off Chris, one of the things that we're doing next week is an article about the types of protection you can now buy or download for that inbox :)
Andrea Title: Re: Your Spam Calculator! Post by: sobriquetnic on July 12, 2004, 10:05:45 pm Hi Andrea
I look forward to reading that. We suffer from Spam a great deal in our office. The main problem for us being that all of our branch email addresses are listed on the contacts page of our website so that's where I think some of it may come from. I have actually changed my work email address and have been very careful not to use it to sign up for anything on the internet, or to be careful to make sure I tick that all important 'privacy' box. I was getting in excess of 200 emails every morning and I'm sure my colleagues were starting to wonder about the websites I was visiting! Seriously though, I had only signed up for travel-related websites (no, really!!!) but I think once your email address is out there, you're just 'spammed' for life! All the best, Nicola. Title: Re: Your Spam Calculator! Post by: supergirl on July 13, 2004, 02:38:10 am I don't have much trouble with spam at work, but at home--wow. It got so bad at one point that I now log onto our provider first, delete/report all the spam, and THEN pick the rest up in our inbox. Talk about time consuming! But it's worth it if I can keep those "How does she like it?" emails from my kids.
If you're in the US, did you know you can forward spam to the ftc? The address is uce@ftc.gov. I don't know what they do with it, but it makes me happy to imagine a spammer being hung by his/her toenails in jail! Supergirl |