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