Re: IM2000 Won't Be Worth It

[email protected] Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:38:24 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.mail.im2000
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On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:32:27PM +0000, Jon Ribbens 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?
> 
> Personally, I reckon it'd be about 1% or less.

We are not just talking about spam related storage.  If presently your
ISP uses 100G storage, it will need 50G for IM2000 since it does not
have to store incoming messages.

Mate
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