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What Is The Real Cost of Spam?
securitas writes "The NY Times has a nice feature about the diverging estimates of the costs of spam (Google). The estimates vary widely from $10 billion to $87 billion per year for American workers, and even more for global costs. Critics say that research firms' estimates vastly overstate the actual cost of spam. Public institutions like Indiana University have to be sensitive to the First Amendment rights of the spammers. And at companies like Nortel Networks, security architect Chris Lewis says that the real economic burden is the 10 to 15 percent - 5,000 to 10,000 messages a day - of the spam that still gets through, which costs the company about $1 in lost productivity per message. The costs can be much higher if a top executive is upset or mad about spam. "If someone in senior management gets spammed," Mr. Lewis said, "it could take 20 or 30 hours of everyone's time, up and down the chain." A chart of the per user amount of spam and the time spent processing it, as well as the varying estimates of the per user cost of spam are included in the article."
Only an asshole would think that they have the right to DUMP CRAP in people's mailboxes. Or phone people at all hours of the day and disrupt their lives with FUCKING MARKETING.
People like you are a good example of WHAT'S WRONG WITH AMERIKA. Assholes like you that for businesses, ANYTHING GOES. Well, perhaps you haven't have had enough jets flown into your buildings, then. One day, all the assholes like you will be lined against the wall and shot dead; then, the clueful people will take over and live will be much more bearable.