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In article <351D3DD1.590747C@hotmail.com>, Buzz  <purphaze@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Hey, now that I have supplied the numbers and stat's, Where the hell
>are yours? Can you name any business that has been closed from spam?

  I don't recall saying that I could name a business which was closed
due to spam.  You did.

  If you want to find out those stats, do it yourself.

>Can you give ANY numbers????  or was that request just another point
>to whine about? I'm waiting, oh wise one.

  You must have missed Chris's posts.  They're all available on
dejanews:

http://www.dejanews.com

search: ~g ott.online & buzz & cost & chris

Message-ID:   <EqII15.C4M@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
> Work out the math: at $100/hour loaded labour rate, 120,000 spams
> works out to about 2000 hours, or, $200,000.  Then remember that
> it's less than 1% of our company reporting.  Some of our estimates
> for the total of lost time due to email spam up in the $4-5 million
> range per year.  Mine is around $50,000-$100,000 per _week_.

Message-ID:   <6fbgkp$8rc@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca>
> Various ISPs estimate between 10 and 30% of all traffic coming into
> their systems is spam.  When you're talking a few thousand customers
> (or, say, AOL's 10 million +), you're not talking about a few pieces
> of hardware that cost a few grand.  You're talking about infrastructure,
> support, physical plant, space, wiring costs, financing costs, manpower,
> increased bandwidth, backups etc.  That costs orders of magnitude more
> than the Computer City cost for a few 9Gb disk drives.
> 
> Ask AOL sometime how much it costs to provide email services to their
> customers.  The answer is up in the 10s of millions.  Then, take 30%
> of that.  Big number, right?


  Do the math.  If you can't, ask your big brother to help.

  Alan DeKok.