Just 8% of American consumers are receiving permission-based commercial e-mail at work according to a survey by e-mail service provider Lyris Technologies.
Not surprisingly, Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL are the top receivers of permission-based commercial e-mail to consumers. Twenty six percent of American Internet users receive commercial e-mail at Yahoo, 21% at Hotmail and 13% at AOL, according to Lyris.
Many factors could account for the low work-account usage for commercial e-mail, including