Stanford says the average webhead now squanders ten business days a year grappling spam. (Yes. You’re a webhead.) The New York Times claims spam is up 50 to 60 percent since CAN-SPAM, costing the US alone $17 billion. So who’s to blame?The candidates are:

  1. CAN-SPAM isn’t tough enough to scare spammers;
  2. Feds aren’t enthusiastically enforcing the Law;
  3. Cleverly opaque spam server networks can’t be traced;
  4. Virus infected spam-zombie armies are swelling rabidly;
  5. Spammers are learning, getting smarter by the minute;
  6. Filters force more spam to collect the same revenue.

Our favorite: spam filters are just too darned good. Doggone it. Why didn’t we think of that? That’s why NYT scribes get the big bucks.

See for yourself at New York Times.