I work for a smallish department in a large academic institution. I am in a salary position and I am not directly compensated for my time on call. Though, if I am called in for three hours, that is three hours I can take off some other time.
A coworker of mine is paid by the hour. When he is on call, he is paid $2.00/hour just to be on call. If he is called in, he gets paid a two hour minimum for each call. If the call exceeds two hours, he gets paid his normal hourly rate for everything beyond that.
I'll agree that there is more to the issue of spam than hard disk space. Wasted time, invasion of privacy, wasted network bandwidth, etc. are all good reasons to dislike SPAM.
But, to say disk space is cheap means that you avoiding the bigger picture of what is involved with "Enterprise" disk space.
Disk space may not be all that expensive on someone's peronsal machine, but once you get to disk redundancy, disaster recovery mechanisms, and the staff to support such things, disk space becomes expensive quickly. Spam is good at chewing on the disk.
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I work for a smallish department in a large academic institution. I am in a salary position and I am not directly compensated for my time on call. Though, if I am called in for three hours, that is three hours I can take off some other time.
A coworker of mine is paid by the hour. When he is on call, he is paid $2.00/hour just to be on call. If he is called in, he gets paid a two hour minimum for each call. If the call exceeds two hours, he gets paid his normal hourly rate for everything beyond that.
Moneywise, we end up making about the same.
I'll agree that there is more to the issue of spam than hard disk space. Wasted time, invasion of privacy, wasted network bandwidth, etc. are all good reasons to dislike SPAM.
But, to say disk space is cheap means that you avoiding the bigger picture of what is involved with "Enterprise" disk space.
Disk space may not be all that expensive on someone's peronsal machine, but once you get to disk redundancy, disaster recovery mechanisms, and the staff to support such things, disk space becomes expensive quickly. Spam is good at chewing on the disk.
Aaron
I believe IANALNDIPOOTV means:
I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/travel/dynpage.asp?Page=144
This is where Hemos may have read the list of countries.