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Enormous. – Spam is a big problem because of
the common resources it consumes. Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) allow you to surf the Internet, and deliver your email
typically for a flat monthly fee. They must, in turn, purchase
bandwidth (the term for their own connection to the Internet).
The more users they have, the more bandwidth they need. If
they have numerous users they may need to buy additional
servers to manage email. These costs are offset by the added
revenues of a larger user base. Spam however, increases their
need for bandwidth, and adds to the load on their email
servers with no additional revenue to compensate. The added
cost must be passed on to the customers, the very victims of
the spam in first place. Some central email servers have been
shut down due to Spam overload for extended periods, depriving
paying customers of their emails. ISPs process hundreds of
millions of email messages each day, 30%
of which are Spam. The problem of Spam has reached
proportions where it threatens the viability of email and of
the Internet itself, increasing the need for a spam / spyware eliminator.
Spam is a huge problem because it is
indicative of inefficient, freeloading businesses. The Nobel
Prize winning economist Ronald
Coace in what is now known as the Coace
Theorem postulated that an inefficient business (one that
cannot bear the cost of its own activities) is dangerous to
the economy, because to function, it must spread the cost of
its activities across a large number of victims. The Coace
Theorem cuts close to home where Spam is concerned. Any
business that needs to send Spam emails to survive is not a
viable business. The benefit to the spammer is
disproportionate to the cost borne by the spammer, which is
next to nil. More importantly, the cost of Spam removal to the
victims is totally disproportionate to the benefit to the
spammer making a spyware eliminator necessary. In a free market economy such a grossly inefficient
process should cease when property rights are enforced (i.e.
the cost is borne by the the party who incurs them).
Spam is a big problem because of the private
resources it consumes. Many business people spend up to
fifteen minutes per day reading and deleting their Spam
emails. This time would be cut down if a spyware eliminator is used. A company with 100 knowledge workers earning an
average of $40,000 per year each spending ten minutes per day
deleting Spam would experience an added burden of $80,000 per
year. This cost would be passed on to Internet users and
non-users alike as they purchase products from this company at
their local department store. You can see how important a spyware eliminator becomes.
Spam is a big problem because of number of
victims it involves. According to META Group, 5-15% of
corporate email is Spam. This is expected to grow to 15-30%
in the near term. This means that the average medium-sized
company receives 20,000 Spam emails per day. Taking the above
example a little further, if 10 million people each lose 5
minutes a day deleting Spam, in terms of productivity, this
could cost the global economy over $4 billion annually, not
counting wasted bandwidth, CPU time and network administration
time and tools. Based on these assumptions, the global cost of
Spam may well be over $5 billion annually. Reduce spam, invest in a spyware eliminator.
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