We've all got mail: IDC predicts 60 billion e-mails a day by 2006
from IDG News Service

Here's some depressing news for all of you info-gluttons out there... How will you control your data waistline?

"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.

Not surprisingly, the increase won't be messages from friends and loved ones. Of the 31 billion e-mail messages that now move across the Internet and private networks daily, about two-thirds are person-to-person communications; 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."

From one information dieter to another, three words of advice, filter, filter, filter!

Liquid Assets : Some sound investment advice

An online investment service reports that if you bought $1000 worth of Enron shares a year ago, today they would be worth $12-. $1000 of WorldCom would bring you about $5.60.

However if you had bought $1000 worth of Budweiser (the actual beer, not the stocks) and then recycled the empty cans with their 10 cent deposit, you would have $260 to show for your investment.

The moral of the story? Drink heavily and recycle.