Re: [Asrg] 6. Email Path Verification

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:57:41 -0400 
Eric S Johansson <esj@harvee.org> wrote:
> Scott Nelson explained:
>> At 12:38 AM 9/13/03 +0100, Jonathan Morton wrote:

> You assuming that the costs camram puts on a spammer are financial.
> They are but only indirectly.  Camram imposes a time penalty on
> sending messages.  Given a three second stamp, T1 data path yields a
> 140X slowdown for a spammer.  Add a couple of bits to the stamp and
> the slowdown is now 560X.  In the spam world, revenue is a function of
> volume.  Slow them down and you reduce their revenue. Slowly it down
> enough and you end up with reducing or eliminating profitability.

Translation: only one-off single-addressee messages are cost effective.
Bulk mail of any form, be it spam, mailing lists or other mass
broadcasts are penalised.

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J C Lawrence                
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claw@kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?		  
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