How much would it have cost legitimate e-mailers and marketers had they paid "postage" to send the tens of thousands of unsolicited messages I received from them this month?

Most messages weren't, strictly speaking, what many would define as spam. Torrents of virus warnings and other autoresponders were triggered by the MyDoom virus, which (like most contemporary viruses) spoofs messages from everyone in an infected PC's Outlook contact list. Roughly half my mail consisted of automatic responses to e-mail I never sent.
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