Re: Explaining spam to policians (was: test message)

[Piet Beertema <]

> Don't we have any stats on the number of spam received by people?
> That might be simpler to convince them of the severity of the problem.
The number of spam received by *individuals* probably isn't going
to say enough. Figures about entire *organisations* may well say
a lot more. I've done so on various occasions for CWI in the past
couple of months. Although CWI is a relatively small organisation
(some 250 people), the figures I got ranged from some 750 to some
3000 *per day*. Part of this can be explained by the fact that we
have quite a few people whose (present of past) activities cause
their e-mail addresses to be known in the entire Solar System,
and thus to become "prime targets" for spam. But even so...


        Piet