Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

Jon Ribbens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hotmail sells information about you and permission to spam you to third
> > parties to partly make up the operating loss; the remainder is written off
> > as marketing expense for "Microsoft Passport" and assorted technologies.
> 
> Allegedly. Actually I get almost zero spam to my hotmail inbox so I suspect
> this is false.

It is not.  I've talked to the spammers who bought such permission to spam me
from Hotmail, and they showed me the information they'd purchased.  I no
longer have a Hotmail account.

> > > Regardless, IM2000 does not reduce mail storage requirements so I'm not
> > > sure what your point is.
> > 
> > Yes, it does.  ISPs no longer have to pay for the storage for their
> > customers' incoming mail /at all/, because it is stored by the sender.
> > That's a huge difference.
> 
> Err, yeah, they have to pay for the outgoing mail instead.

Yes, all of which is created by their customers, whom they have a business
relationship with, unlike incoming messages, which are from people they
generally have no relationship with.

> Which on average will be exactly the same size as the incoming mail store
> was,

No, it won't.

> or indeed even larger because users are less likely to delete mail from
> remote outgoing stores whose quotas do not affect them.

Read the proposal again.  If receivers don't unpin messages, they can still
expire from the mail store.  ISPs need not let their customers' outgoing mail
store grow beyond limit.  But even better (from an ISP's point of view), they
can simply bill higher fees for larger outboxes.

Charles
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