Web surfers are urged to dump junk mail as Yahoo kicks off the first global antispam day.
Today is the first global antispam day--dubbed "Dump the Junk Day"-- which is being promoted by Yahoo in the hope of further raising the profile of the worldwide spam problem.
Estimates suggest spam--or unsolicited bulk e-mail--costs businesses roughly $8.18 billion (5 billion pounds) per year in lost hours and wasted resources. More than 40 percent of all e-mail traffic is now made up of spam, and some industry experts have expressed concerns that the levels may get so high that it becomes unusable as a communications tool.