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Real impacts of spam
15 February 2018
I don’t talk about it very often, but there are some real consequences to the mere existence of spam. In 2004, the FTC mentioned it as a driver in address churn*(Federal Trade Commission 2004). Of course, unwanted messages get lost. Finally, we can blame the mere existence of spam for the existence of spam filters.