No. Check your postal mailbox lately? I hate spam but these
mathematical figures everyone comes up with are quite humorous. It
takes me about 10-15 seconds to go through my EMail in the morning and
tag all the obvious SPAM messages (from the subject line) and delete
them. Figure another 30-40 seconds a day to delete the ones with a
not-obvious subject line. 1 Minute a day isn't all that bad.
-Mark McDonald
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-----Original Message-----
From: Salvatore Buttice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:15 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ORBS - blacklist not the answer
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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