Re: [Asrg] E-postage

[Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com>]

On April 25, 2004 at 16:31 aland@ox.org (Alan DeKok) wrote:
 > 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.


That's 1,000 different hosts sending ONE SPAM simultaneously, at one
given instant.

Not 1,000 per day.

 > > 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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