Originally Posted by Pornwolf

Did you factor in the trees cut down due to mailbox spam as well as the general pollution that effects us all? All the paper that is created from cut down trees and bleached fibers doesn't do our enviorment one bit of good.

The actual cost of spam is negligable when you consider the amount of bandwidth bought by the corporations for daily use remain constant with or without spam. Spammers pay for the bandwidth that sends most messages out. Companies and users recieve it on pipes that are already installed, arranged and paid for.

A company that needs a 100mb Cogent pipe is going to buy it anyway. Spam in the email box has very little, or NO, effect on that fixed cost. It's a very colorful way for the antispam contingent to spin spam into a money sucking monster that it's not. So try the, "It costs corporations money" argument again on someone who doesn't know the truth.

The only cost is in lost productivity. But if you have ever worked in a company you would know that more productivity is lost just staring at the wall daydreaming between 9am and 9:45am when a person just gets into the office. Let's not talk about the water cooler or the coffee room. Plenty of lost time there. What about the extra 5 or 10 minutes added onto 1 hour lunches? There's no news report on TV talking about 'The Scourge Of Business, LONG LUNCH BREAKS!"

Get real.