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Originally Posted by screener
about that. I agree with you that spam can be a waste of time and resources, but I don't let it bother me too much.
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well you should.Many of the people coming to this [and other ] forums do so from work. When the real cost of spam hits the employers then its bye bye to surfing at work.
For home users on dial up ,and there are many of these still,factor in the attention time, the cost of logging on when they get a notification of a new post in the forum only to find that it is a rubbish link to some twats blog ,abuse of privacy and the potential to over-ride parental control.
Economics, government & business - Spam costs UK businesses £1.3bn a year - 09/03/2005