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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."

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  1. Linux is gay. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linux is gay.

  2. The cost of the GNAA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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  3. counter-argument by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's an interesting writeup of the opposite argument: That spam actually creates more productivity than it consumes (via anti-spam tools). I came across the article over at tubgirl tech archive

  4. Re: Jacuzzi Jet by handybundler · · Score: -1, Troll

    101. Jacuzzi jet

    I have access to a Jacuzzi, the kind with all the jets. There are two ways you can do it: 1. get real close to the jet, if you can get your vagina on top of the jet, it's best, then turn them on, it pulses through you like nothing else can. Unlike the steady stream of a faucet, this kind of bubbles and swooshes around inside you. I can only stay on the jet for about a minute or two before I come and am completely used up. You can move up and down and the jet massages your clit and pussy. Plus the wider your legs are open the better, it allows the water to go all the way in. 2. You can screw your ass and it feels great. A hot-tub works just as well. You can do this several times and get off each time. I love it. I now look forward to taking baths! This method works better than anything else. Better than a cock, dildo, whatever.

    102. On your knees doggie style

    Running water taps or faucets that are about foot above the ground work the best. Keep turning it on until the water pressure suits you (the stronger, the better!) Get down on your knees doggie style and move back towards the tap until you feel the cool water against you. The water feels great against your clit and ass and it sends you into orgasmic climaxes! Feels different from the usual lying down technique as the water is spraying in a different direction this way. I like to spread my legs wide and squeeze my breasts to bring this technique to the full effect!

    103. Mommy's vase

    My mother gave me a vase a few years back and since then I have been using it to masturbate. But first I give myself a little massage and then slowly insert it in my wet pussy and then move it in and out vigorously.

    104. Lava lamp

    I like to take my lava lamp (turned off of course) and use it on myself. It's kinda large but that's ok because I'm really loose. Note: Make sure to wash off after use because it will reek if you turn it on.

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    105. Spoon it up

    I use a plastic serving spoon - the handle. I rub it against my clit real slow, and then faster and faster, then slow again. Another is, I use the spoon handle and rub it against my g spot while rubbing my clit with my fingers. It feels soooooo good.!!

    106. Talk dirty to me

    I have not had any type of sex with a man for two years so I seem to be horny all the time, Lately I am doing things I never thought I would do, like letting men talk dirty to me on the computer. I have been divorced twice and I really miss having a stiff one to suck once in a while. There is this one guy from England that is chatting with me and it really got hot the other night. I was letting him do all the talking while I pretended to be shocked. He would stop in the middle of telling me how he would like to lick me all over and ask "do you want me to go on" I would not answer so he just continued with telling me about all the dirty stuff he would like to do to me. Then he asked me again and I did not answer so he said that unless I wrote the words "fuck me" on the screen he would not continue. He had me so worked up that I had taking all my clothes off and had my soaking wet pussy spread open with the nearest thing I could find shoved in there. It was a hair brush handle (got the idea from masturbation tips at this site). I did not want him to stop so I hit the cap lock and typed in "FUCK ME, FUCK ME HARD, FUCK ME ALL NIGHT LONG". He began eating me out with his words, he was so good he had me rubbing my clit and pumping that hair brush until I exploded about three times in a row. I just typed in the words " Thanks I needed that" and logged off. For days now I have been doing the hair brush thing and I even had to lock my self in the bathroom at work in the middle of the day when my cunt would not stop dripping just thinking about his mouth all over my hungry twat. I better find mister right soon before I hurt my self.

    107. Levi's love

    Sometimes when you wear tight jeans, the seam hits right on

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  5. Costs of Spam by linuxislandsucks · · Score: 0, Troll

    Costs of Spam..

    6 years to life for every M*ther F**Ker you kill :)

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  6. Re:GNAA WARNING!!! by The_Listener_1985 · · Score: -1, Troll

    lol at where that phone number goes to. Try looking it up on google! Anyways, I see how spam can hurt productivity, but isn't there alternitives to e-mail for passing about memos and messages? Like maybe getting out of your desk and handing a note to a person across the hall?

  7. Re:GNAA WARNING!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    (877) 825-4689 is the CORRECT gnaa number.