Eric writes: > Nobody seems to think there is a cost associated > with "hit delete" There is; however, like the cost of sending spam itself, it is very low. Even at a hundred dollars an hour, the cost of deleting spam each day with the delete key (and even at the current rate of hundreds of spam per day) is only $2-$3 ... several times cheaper than the daily cost of visiting a restroom. This being so, the argument that deleting spam is expensive is hard to support. It may be irritating, but it's not costly to delete, any more than it is costly to throw junk postal mail in the trash while looking through one's daily mail.