Actually 6850 (6849 and a fraction... :)
There are on average 2000 work hours in a year (50 with 2 weeks paid
vacation at 40 hours per week). That makes the total hours wasted (in this
scenario) or 13,700,000 man hours. At a cost of $6/hour, you're looking at
$82,200,000 per year to deal with spam. Somebody check my math? This seems
high!
If it's correct however, we have a conservative estimate that SPAM costs the
general populace 82 million per year. Worth having a law to stop this crap
yet?
-Sal
-----Original Message-----
From: R. Scott Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ORBS - blacklist not the answer
>I can only speak for myself but I like to make my own choices. Spam is a
>nuisance but all I have to do is hit delete and it's gone
With 18 billions spams sent a year, and an estimate of 4 seconds to
determine that an E-mail is spam and delete it, you would need over 6,000
people working full time to delete all the spam that is sent in a year.
Imagine if people volunteered an extra 800,000 hours of their time a year
to good causes?
>It is fundamentally wrong for somebody other than a mail recipient to
decide
>whether the mail recipient should or shouldn't receive an email.
Yes. But it is also fundamentally wrong for someone to make you pay to
read their message, without your permission. If just 10% of the mail that
you receive is spam, that means that about 10% of the costs associated with
E-mail (cost of installing and maintaining the mail server, bandwidth,
etc.) is spent to allow those spammers to spam you. You are paying the
spammer to send you mail.
It's what is called "The lesser of two evils". Each person needs to decide
for himself which he considers worse.
-Scott
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