From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <2e53d0b955987afff06292756dc7e4c9@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] spam (was "pathetic") From: Geoff Collyer In-Reply-To: <20040228144033.1227.qmail@mail.dirac.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:17:50 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 03831ea8-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 One reason you get so much paper spam (junk mail) is that the post office (at least in the US and I believe Canada) *subsidises* the spammers: they get lower postal rates for bulk spamming. The only reason people tolerate paper spam is that most individuals don't get 100 - 200 pieces of paper mail per day, but some of us do get that much (or more) electronic mail. In the 1980s as a computer center system administrator, I got about 200 messages every working day, and that was before electronic spam.