Re: You KNOW it's SPAM if. . .

From: Jim Reardon <jim_at_amusive.com>
Date: Fri 17 Mar 2000 10:48:27 -0600

JORGE WROTE:
> I ask those on this list to make a distinction between
> Spam and UCE. Because, I for one, am grateful for UCE
> that I receive at the office which has provided me with
> contacts that otherwise, I would not have today. At the
> very least, here in North America, receiving an e-mail
> is by far much less expensive than receiving a fax. I
> would much rather hate the latter, and would remind the
> self-righteous Spam haters that when you are open for
> business, you should be open TO business. Receiving UCE
> will always be, for me, an important aspect of my work
> as Marketing Director for an Internet Company.

Is your company succeeding? Because it doesn't seem
like you have enough work. You also don't understand
the technical side of things, either.

1 - I receive, typically, 3 - 5 copies of each Spam /
UCE (both are the same) since I have various aliases
on my website to track where email comes from. I
typically receive 30-50 solicitations overnight,
amounting to 200ish emails daily. This is me and me
alone that has to filter through that email. Thats 1
hour of my day. $250 is my standard consulting rate.
That's lost money.

2 - Between myself and my hosted clients, I measure
about 25-50 GB of traffic of spam per month. At $3.50
per gigabyte. You do the math.

3 - Once, a while back, a spammer decided to send me 50
copies of each message to 25 different aliases...
almost simultaneously. This crashed my server, which
had to manually be brought back up. This cost me 1
hour of uptime (approximately $50 in lost profit) plus
admin time ($250 an hour).

Grand total, so far this year, spam has costed me over
$20,000 in lost time and expenses. So no, Jorge...
this is NOT going the way of prohibition.

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