The season for spam to all men?

Get your delete digit ready today – a 3,000 strong e-mail spam heap could be waiting for you at the office. Workers will have to trawl through an average of 450 messages, 70 per cent of which will be spam. The heavy users of email may face 3,000 such messages in their inboxes.

But beware of using the ‘delete all’ strategy. ‘It may bring a cathartic pleasure but you may be deleting critical information’ so says Bob Hallewell of consultancy Expert Messaging. ‘For each e-mail, either deal with it now, delegate, delete or defer it’, he added.

Some popular Bloggers have also been affected by the holiday period, coming back to find thousands of instances of comment spam in their admin panel to sort through:

"After New Year, I came back to a huge glut of spam in my database! ... The queue contained over 1000 spams, that didn’t include spam in my comment plugin either."

Looks like spammers don't do holidays..