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Saturday, September 28, 2002
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/26/020926hnemail6b.xml?s=IDGNS You've got mail: 60 billion a day by 2006 Gretel Johnston As if the strain that spam and e-mail alerts are putting on in-boxes weren't enough already, expect even more in the coming years as the overall number of e-mail messages doubles from 31 billion a day now to 60 billion a day by 2006, market researcher IDC predicts. It will not surprise the average e-mail user that the increase will not be messages from friends and loved ones. Of the 31 billion e-mail messages that move across the Internet and private networks daily now, about two-thirds are person-to-person communications and the rest is made up of spam, notifications and alerts for information such as stock prices and sports scores. By 2006, a little over half of the 60 billion messages sent daily will be person-to-person, said Mark Levitt, vice president of IDC's collaborative computing program....
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