Re: IM2000 Won't Be Worth It
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Mar 2004 12:58:06 -0600
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Jon Ribbens <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why do I care if either of those things have been done? > > > > Because you, as recipient, directly or indirectly, pay the costs of doing so > > in an SMTP world. > > Supposing I pay £25 ($45) a month for my Internet access, would you > care to hazard a guess how much of that goes to pay for spam-related > bandwidth and storage? [and overhead such as administrative tasks related to spam] 50%. > Personally, I reckon it'd be about 1% or less. Nope. Spam now accounts for more administrative overhead than tech support does. Spam via SMTP is a /huge/ cost for ISPs and mailhosts in today's world. Ask Markus Stumpf how much of his day relates to taking care of spam. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------