1. In "Email etiquette policies: Big savings and productivity," how much time does the average worker spend reading and/or deleting spam each day?
Answer: a. 10 minutes
2. What is included in Joel Dubin's list of inbound risks that accompany email in "Email security buying decisions"?
Answer: c. all of the above
3. In the tip "Email archiving and compliance tools: SMB Buying Decisions," Elisabeth Horwitt writes that many email archiving systems include a "single instant" feature that stores the primary copy of an e-mail or attachment, but not copies sent to various colleagues. This feature can reduce storage costs by how much?
Answers: b. 15% to 20% and c. 20% to 25%
Editor's Note: Oops! We admit it, even editors can mess up sometimes. The answer was actually 15% to 25%. Luckily, diligent readers like yourself pointed out our error. As a result, we counted b, c, none and both b and c as valid answers when choosing a winner.
4. Gateway security vendor IronPort Systems Inc. found that image spam had increased how much in 2006 in comparison with 2005, as noted in the article "Image-based spam on the rise"?
Answer: a. 11% overall
5. Which item isn't mentioned in "Email encryption: Five steps to success"?
Answer: c. How much?
6. Email is still the primary target of e-discovery requests, but other forms of electronic records are becoming applicable. In "IM and blogs next target for litigation," what percentage of organizations said they had received a subpoena requesting employee email in 2005?
Answer: c. 24%
7. In "IM boom brings security concerns," what percentage of employees use instant messaging (IM) in the workplace?
Answer: b. 65%
8. Two instant messaging products in "A recipe for secure IM success." are recommended. Which item isn't?
Answer: a. AOL Instant Messenger
9. Email makes for an awkward collaboration tool, writes Paul Gillin in "RSS: Really simple stuff." RSS delivers a regularly updated stream of information -- what is the term for that stream?
Answer: c. a feed
10. In "Email etiquette policies: Big savings and productivity," Tom Pisello notes that spam comprises how much of an organization's email?
Answer: b. 20%
This was first published in March 2007