Spam costs and questions
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Wed Jun 4 12:59:06 PDT 1997
A friend who's going to be speaking on one of the FTC panels next week
sent me a few questions about spam. Does anyone want to try their hand at
answering them? I'll forward along all responses I get.
What are the costs to consumers of
unsolicited e-mail? I guess the time it
takes to delete it might be one, hard
drive space might be another. I would
like to know how to quantify it, and
compare it with the cost of sending
e-mail.
If you banned commercial e-mail,
wouldn't it just affect legitimate
commercial transactions? That is to say,
wouldn't fly-by-night pyramid-scheme
builders still be able to spam? I would
think that if they are so untraceable
that it's hard to block their spam that
it wouldn't really matter if it were
simply made illegal.
-Declan
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