newyawker99
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Tue Jul-08-03 06:05 PM
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Spam Believed to Cost Businesses Billions |
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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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Tue Jul-08-03 06:07 PM
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there's no way spam costs billions.
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Tue Jul-08-03 06:09 PM
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2. I use AOL...they have an option to report SPAM...I report all unwanted |
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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.
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Tue Jul-08-03 06:12 PM
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Tue Jul-08-03 06:15 PM
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4. Employees going to the bathroom cost businesses $trillions. GOP passing |
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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'. http://www.geocities.com/darkerxdarker
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