Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Mar 2004 00:07:51 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.im2000
Organization	Wack's Wicks Works
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

JR> IM2000 does not reduce mail storage requirements

Yes, it does, especially for messages that recipients either refuse or delete
without transferring to local storage.

JR> frankly SMTP bandwidth is *nothing* compared to other uses
JR> like HTTP.

Verisign's published SiteFinder statistics put HTTP at 68.81% and SMTP at
17.06% of all TCP connections.  By these figures, SMTP is less than HTTP in
terms of TCP connections, but it's hardly "nothing", especially considering
that no other protocol accounted for even a quarter as many TCP connections as
SMTP did.