What are the negative impacts of spam email on the Internet Community ?
Every time a spammer sends out spam email, the entire Internet community has to bear the cost, in particular the recipients and the ISPs at the receiving end. Some Internet users are paying for their Internet access time by the minute, so they are forced to spend extra online time and, therefore, money in downloading unwanted spam email. Spam is also disruptive to email users, wasting their time, and ultimately making the email as a convenient tool less useful if the amount of spam continues to grow. Spam email also ties up bandwidth and resources on computers and routers all over the Internet. Every unwanted email message adds to the total cost of operating the networks of computers that form the path of delivery to recipients. Spam email can disrupt a network by crashing mail servers and filling up hard drives.
