I say more mutual cooperation, and fewer laws. But sometimes we need to
build fences/filters to keep out unwanted e-mail. IMGate is here, free, and
available to all. Best of all it can be customized to user's preferences
based on their needs, wants, and desires. If everyone donated a little of
their time to building IMGate machines we could have a standard, and not
have to pay higher taxes to support a law we can enforce ourselves, in our
own way, based on feedback from our own customers. Those who don't like the
filters like ORBS could just remove those lines, and they'd still have a
high performance mail gateway that prevents unauthorized relaying, etc.,
etc., etc. Read Len's site. IMGate is the perfect compliment to IMail, and
guess what, you don't have to wait for IMail 7 to be released to take
advantage of all these cool features.
http://imgate.meiway.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Salvatore Buttice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:15 AM
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
>
> Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for
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>
>
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