Radicati Group "Cited" in Security Book

I finished reading "Inside the SPAM Cartel: Trade Secrets From The Dark Side" today. For the first time, I can say that a technical book had me crying in laughter. I do not want to give away too much about the review I am writing about the book for later this week, but one line in the book had me rolling on the floor:

"There are many annual cost estimates flying around the Internet, and a Google serach for "spam costs billions" shows that these estimates vary greatly, from the conservative $4 billion in annual losses to the extremely preposterous estimate of $41.6 billion* from 'research firm' Radicati Group".

So it is NOT just members of the Lotus/Domino community that have problems with the research and numbers put out by this company?

*This number is larger than the annual oil and petroleum exports from Saudi Arabia, which the authors feels as little resemblance to reality. You can read the full report that includes the Radicati and other analyst statmenets in the October 2003 Report issued by the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group.