Re: [Asrg] E-postage

["Alan DeKok" <aland at ox.org>]

Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> The other day we were being pelted by a single spam from over 1,500
> different IP addresses, presumably all compromised. That's not a
> singular incident, in fact the day before a similar incident involving
> over 1,000 hosts occurred tho I'll admit numbers like that don't tend
> to happen daily, 

  I *dream* of getting spam from only 1K hosts a day.

  While my situation is unusual, it's the leading edge, and a
predictor of others situations in the future.

> So, your point only holds water if we're to agree that the current
> situation is cost-free or nearly so, so the solution must be cost-free
> or nearly so.

  I'd put the objections a different way.  It's difficult to quantify
the recipients cost due to spam.  Sure, you can come up with
reasonable figures for end-users losing productivity due to spam, but
those figures aren't a line item on someones budget.

  In contrast, anti-spam systems *are* line items, especially to the
people who deploy them, and to anti-spam companies.  Any solution,
therefore, which reduces spam, has huge cost to some parties, and
non-accountable savings to others.

  Alan DeKok.

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