>What is it that you can do free Chris? With all the emails you receive >and send I would think that whatever you do about SPAM it has a cost to >it in time and since you are in business then time is money.
I hear this argument ALL the time, and it is simply WRONG. Spending x number of hours at $$/hr does NOT equate to a direct savings if you can spend less on a solution that will take fewer hours. The falacy with the argument is, it assumes A: you have an unlimited amount of money to spend in exchange for time, and B: that by spending money, the $$/hr on time saved will then not be spent. In most real world situations, neither A nor B are true, and thus the argument fails. Budget is limited, and needs to be spent as needed, and hourly wages may be paid regardless of which projects someone is working on. So in the business world, if I pay $100 to prevent doing two hours of work, all I've done is saved myself two hours on that project BUT cost my budget $100 that would not have otherwise been spent. I still get paid for the same two hours regardless of the fact that I didn't work on stopping spam. I got to work on something else, but I was still paid for two hours. So the spam prevention just cost me $100 more to outsource then it would have if I had just done the work myself. Take yourself as an example. How much time have you wasted working on someone else's iMac instead of just buying yourself a new computer. Based on your own idea, wouldn't it have been better to just buy a new computer and not waste so much of your time? Your statement says that is so... but I already know the real answer. NO, it isn't better. Why, because you can't afford a new computer. So for you, time is your only currency. It doesn't matter if you have to spend 500 hours that could be saved if you bought a new computer. There is no money for a new computer, so you spend the only thing you can, your time. The fact that you are a person and not a business is irrelivant. For 99% of businesses, the two are exactly the same (the places the arguments work are places like Microsoft, where they DO have an unlimited amount of money to spend in exchange for time. But businesses, or people, where it holds true are in the extreme minority of business and people that end up having the idea pushed on them) So like I said, the argument is simply wrong in the real world. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
