Re: Inexpensive anti-spamware/anti-verminware tactic

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

No, it doesn't, in fact for those messages it makes the problem worse
since the people who should be deleting are not customers of the
people who are storing the mail.

> 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.

You seem to have confused "bandwidth" and "TCP connections". Plus
SiteFinder statistics are utterly meaningless since they're only
seeing mis-addressed connections, and presumably only a few protocols
were measured anyway.