[thechat] AOL has a "normal" amount of spam

[Daniel J. Cody]

i dont think said person has been become known for *understating* things 
.. now broad generalizations on the other hand..

Warden, Matt wrote:

>>From an article by Steve Champeon:
> 
> "To give you an idea of the scope of the problem, in 1998 AOL reported
> that of the approximately 30 million email messages its servers handled
> each day, between 5 and 30 percent were spam. Assuming that this rate is
> true for other email providers as well, spam takes a significant economic
> toll on business, not merely in terms of Internet resources, but in lost
> employee productivity as well."
> 
> That's so sweet how he slides that by... "Assuming that this rate is true
> for other email providers as well..."
> 
> Talk about inflating the importance of an issue (not to say that spam
> isn't an important issue)! He knows very well that AOL has a uniquely-high
> amount of spam due to many issues... one of which is the fact that screen
> names are AOL email addresses and therefor there  are a max of 25 email
> addresses available to anyone who enters a chat room (the "Who's in this
> room" list).
> 
> And I was interested in this article, too, and then he has to do something
> like this that smacks of "my article wasn't interesting enough... must
> have... more... hype..."
> 
> 
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