Google has a little page up patting themselves on the back for stopping so much spam–rightfully so, I guess.  The article mentions that 70% of all incoming mail to Gmail accounts is SPAM.  Wow.  That’s quite a lot.  But thankfully for Gmail users, only 1% of that SPAM gets through to the user. 

What’s strange to me is why Google wouldn’t mention Postini.  After all, it is Postini’s revolutionary SPAM filtering system that is catching all these unwanted messages. 

Then again, Google owns Postini–bought them for $625 Million back in July–so I suppose they can give or take credit for Gmail’s SPAM filtering as they see fit.

How does all this apply to you?  Well, you may or may not remember that Keystone offers Postini service to our clients at a very reasonable price.  As the stats from the Gmail article show–it is an extremely powerful tool in the fight against SPAM.  If you spend even 10 minutes a day going through your email to weed out the SPAM from the real messages you need, that is equivalent to an entire week over the course of a year.  Think about that.  What would it be worth for you and your employees to have one more week per year of actual work time?  Whatever that number is, Postini is less than that.  Check out our website to learn more, or give us a shout and we’ll be glad to talk about it further.