Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> writes:
> There is no cost to spam. It is purely an annoyance factor.
This strikes me as a pretty limited way to measure cost.
To the extent to which people would be willing to pay to not be
spammed, then spam is costing them happiness (an economist would say
utility). That cost is no less real than if it were using up their
disk space. To be concrete about it, consider the amount of money
being spent on spam-suppression. That's a direct cost imposed by spam.
-Ekr
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