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The Cost of Spam.
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The Cost of Spam The rising amount of unwanted email, or spam, threatens to clog our email servers and inboxes and make it difficult to receive the messages we do want. The amount of "junk mail" from the post office that I receive does not seem to be increasing. Some mail delivered by the postal service might be annoying, but the unwanted email we refer to, as spam is way beyond annoying. All spam is bothersome but an alarming amount is offensive, fraudulent and illegal. Spam is a burden to the person who gets it and to the network of computer systems that deliver it. This burden also brings a significant cost to employers. Spam has some obvious direct costs. Unlike standard postal mailing where the sender pays the postage, the recipient of spam has to pay to receive the e-mail. Delivering the message costs money in Internet bandwidth and...
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