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If I Ever Get My Hands On A Spammer

Interesting figures put out on spam in this study reported by Newsday. I don't really care about the figures as much as I'd just like five minutes with one of these spammers.
Look here - if you are new to computers and you just got on the internet, then you have to learn the Golden Rule.
Never buy anything put out by a spammer! You will learn to hate these people as everyone else does and the only way they stay in business is by people like you who go ahead and buy from them without knowing what you are doing.

Deleting Spam Costs Billions, Study Finds

By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer
NEW YORK -- Time wasted deleting junk e-mail costs American businesses nearly $22 billion a year, according to a new study from the University of Maryland.
A telephone-based survey of adults who use the Internet found that more than three-quarters receive spam daily. The average spam messages per day is 18.5 and the average time spent per day deleting them is 2.8 minutes.
The loss in productivity is equivalent to $21.6 billion per year at average U.S. wages, according to the National Technology Readiness Survey produced by Rockbridge Associates, Inc., and the Center for Excellence in Service at Maryland's business school.
The study, to be released Thursday, also found that 14 percent of spam recipients actually read messages to see what they say, and 4 percent of the recipients have bought something advertised through spam within the past year.
The random survey of 1,000 U.S. adults was conducted in November and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.