Spam Believed to Cost Businesses Billions

[newyawker99]

In addition to being annoying, e-mailed spam costs American businesses billions of dollars in lost time, productivity and e-business as it reduces consumer confidence in the Internet, officials told lawmakers Tuesday.

"Consumers are getting inundated with pornographic or false and misleading e-mails that diminishes their faith in e-commerce, undermining many of the benefits," said Joseph Rubin of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

One estimate shows that businesses lose about $10 billion a year because of lost productivity, bandwidth costs and money spent on anti-spam tools. In addition, consumers are likely to delete legitimate business e-mails as they delete spam, Rubin said.

A House Judiciary subcommittee, led by Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., plans to vote on an anti-spam bill soon, which would let consumers opt-out of receiving spam and provide criminal and civil penalties to fight fraudulent spam.


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[samsingh]

1. that's crap

there's no way spam costs billions.

[Gin]

2. I use AOL...they have an option to report SPAM...I report all unwanted

email to them...it has helped...the reporting also blocks the senders future email. At first I was blocking them myself...took too long..so I use the AOL option (that I pay for)every time and it does help.

[htuttle]

3. But...I like spam!

[dArKeR]

4. Employees going to the bathroom cost businesses $trillions. GOP passing

bill to stick tubes up employees crotches to cut lost time. Also will serve as a lie detector monitor to determine if employees are 'Linked to Al Qaeda'.

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