Re: Why Spam is a problem

["Bill Cunningham" <billcu at citynet.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com>
To: "Bill Cunningham" <billcu at CITYNET.NET>
Cc: <ietf at ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: Why Spam is a problem


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> "Bill Cunningham" <billcu at citynet.net> writes:
> > I'm no fan of spam but we all get snail mail ads don't we?
>
> I'll repeat my calculation. I'm receiving at least 55,000 spams a year
> at the rate they are arriving this month. I'm using automation to nuke
> most of them, but if I did not, at three seconds each that's over a
> work week every year devoted to killing that mail --

Is an annualized rate of 55,000 spams a year, sustainable for a year? If you
know statistics figure 1-3 standard deviations for that monthly average.