RE: [Asrg] SMTP over SSL

["Bob Atkinson" <bobatk@exchange.microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asrg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:asrg-admin@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
Vernon
> Schryver
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:02 AM
> To: asrg@ietf.org
> 

> The trouble with that reasoning is that:
> 
>  - the technical costs of dealing with spam are trivial per user
except
>   in rare cases.  All email is on the order of 5% or 10% of HTTP
traffic.
>   Thus, the CPU cycles, disk space, and bandwidth are insignificant
>   compared to other services that are considered too cheap too meter.
 
While the global statistic may be true (I don't know, but it seems at
least plausible), I don't think one can reasonably draw the inference
depicted here. 

The rub is that of the distribution of the various forms of traffic, how
it is spread across various servers. 

I can assure you that there are email systems in which the CPU cycles,
disk space, and bandwidth are very much critical cost factors.

	Bob


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