[SpamCop-List] A pretty cool argument...

[Buck]

Found this on alt.spam.  Sorry if it's been done here before.

Buck
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There are approximately twenty-two million (22,000,000) businesses in
the USA alone.

Assume that 1% of those businesses (.01) sent you just *one* junk
email per *year*.

This would be 220,000 junk emails to you and you alone annually.

Divide 220,000 spams by the number of days in the year - 220,000/365 =
*603* junk emails *per day* in your inbox.

Do you want to wade through 600+ spams to get to the note from your
instructor that's telling you about the changes in the requirements
for the thesis paper you have due in two weeks? Or the note from your
S.O. telling what flight he/she will be on - because it got changed at
the last minute?

603 * 2 = 1206 <-- Spams * size in kb = disk space in kb.
A trivial number in this day and age of 80gb HDDs, but your inbox at
the mailserver is limited to 10mb on average, since you have to share
that mailserver with a lot of other users.

Now assume 2,200,000 businesses send you one spam per year. That
1206kb number jumps to 12060kb and 6030 spams per day in your inbox,
or far enough past 10mb that your mailserver inbox becomes useless.

Getting swamped with spam is only one of a myriad of reasons to fight
spam.

I'm sure others will provide more.

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