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

[Jan Meijer <]

> > Do politicians understand statistics when they are merely shown
> > the digits?
> Good point. A thorough personal experience says a zillion
> times more than any figure. Although... when we can find
> a sound way to transform such figures into EU-wide losses
> in terms of hard euro's, that might help significantly.

Without figures, preferably written down by a respectable research organization, 
they won't even listen.  EU-wide losses in euro's would be a great thing (tm). 
Although you would have to put EU-wide wins (after all, if spammers would not 
make money out of it they would not do it) on the opposite side ;).

How could we calculate the amount of loss due to spam?

Jan