Cost is the combination of: Overhead: The costs and overhead of electronic spamming include bandwidth, developing or acquiring an email/wiki/blog spam tool, taking over or acquiring a host/zombie, etc. Transaction cost: The incremental cost of contacting each additional recipient once a method of spamming is constructed, multiplied by the number of recipients (see CAPTCHA as a method of increasing transaction costs). Risks: Chance and severity of legal and/or public reactions, including damages and punitive damages. Damage: Impact on the community and/or communication channels being spammed (see Newsgroup spam).
Cost is the combination of: Overhe.ad: The costs and overhead of electronic spamming include bandwidth, developing or acquiring an email/wiki/blog spam tool, taking over or acquiring a host/zombie, etc. Transaction cost: The incremental cost of contacting each additional recipient once a method of spamming is constructed, multiplied by the number of recipients (see CAPTCHA as a m?ethod of increasing transaction costs). Risks: Cha:nce and severity of legal and/or public reactions, including damages and punitive damages. Damage: Impact on the community and/or communication channels be?ing? spammed (see Newsgroup spam).