Man described as a top spammer arrested

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Dr Bizzaro

I don't know about that....

Junk mail I receive in a week at work mailbox: Aprox 20-30 items.
Time it takes to go through to make sure it's not something I want or a bill in sandwiched in between 2....about 2 minutes.


Spam I receive weekly: 4000 (about 575 a day).
Now, I have a spam filter that catches about 99.9 of that and only a few get through. BUT a few good emails get into the spam filter as well. So every morning, I take about 15-20 minutes to go through the over night spam and then I probably check it 4 or 5 times a day as it accumulates. To see if anything important got caught in it.
Over all I probably spend about 45 minutes - an hour each day going through spam.

That's 7 hours a week and 15 FULL days a year I have to deal with spam. Multiply that by what I would make an hour (If I made an hourly salary) and that is a large chunk of change I am losing every year.

Compared to the (accumulated) 12 hours a year, I spend sifting through snail mail...... quite a difference.

Don't get me wrong, i hate that junk snail mail as well. But the difference between the 2 is huge.

I know it takes less time but the difference between the number of trees and landfill one takes over the other is huge as well.

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by Jim

I know it takes less time but the difference between the number of trees and landfill one takes over the other is huge as well.

Exactly my thoughts.

[Dr Bizzaro]

Originally Posted by Jim

I know it takes less time but the difference between the number of trees and landfill one takes over the other is huge as well.

True... I was just commenting about it from a work/time wasting perspective.

I recycle all the crap I get in the regular mail. I wish they wouldn't send me any as well. My wife ordered about 5 things through the mail. Now we get about 20-30 catalogs a month.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Dr Bizzaro

True... I was just commenting about it from a work/time wasting perspective.

I recycle all the crap I get in the regular mail. I wish they wouldn't send me any as well. My wife ordered about 5 things through the mail. Now we get about 20-30 catalogs a month.

That's what I mean. Have you ever tried to opt out of a catalog or magazine? I have been trying to get AVN to stop sending me their gay rag for over a year now I think that's why I am touchy about it these days.