Re: IM2000 Won't Be Worth It

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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]

No. Bandwidth and storage only, since "administrative tasks related to
spam" would still be required under IM2000.

> 50%.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, that's funny.

> > 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.

Can you produce any evidence for this claim?

> Ask Markus Stumpf how much of his day relates to taking care of spam.

Never heard of him. I'm sure anyone can manage to make any simple
task difficult if they try hard enough.