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----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ORBS - blacklist not the answer
>
> >I hate spam but these mathematical figures everyone comes up with are
> >quite humorous.
>
> More humor is needed then! :)
>
> >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.
>
> You say it only takes 1 minute per day to delete spam. I said that
800,000
> hours a year were spent deleting spam.
>
> If you are right, that it takes just a minute a day to delete spam, and
> there are just 10,000,000 Internet users with E-mail, that's 160,000 hours
> per day or 60,000,000 hours per year spent total deleting spam.
>
> You are right that my numbers were humorous; I had no idea how low they
were!
>
> -Scott
>
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