Re: [Asrg] Spam, defined, and permissions

["Jon Kyme" <jrk at merseymail.com>]

> 
> Another fallacy of the disk is cheap argument is:
> 
> 
> Around, I dunno, 30% of the US (I think closer to 50% in Europe, and
> much less elsewhere) has broadband (DSL or cable.) Let's stick to the
> US for the sake of discussion.
> 

er, OK, not sure how that helps the discussion ...

> So, around 70% doesn't, and presumably mostly live with 56k modem
> service.
> 
> Typical good throughput on a 56k modem is around 4KB/sec which
> translates to a MB every 250 seconds or around 13MB/hour.
> 
> So, a 250MB mailbox @ 56kb takes around TWENTY HOURS to transfer.
> 
> Even at some typical DSL speed of 1Mbit/s down that's around 1MByte/10
> seconds or 250MB in 2500 seconds, or ~40 minutes but I'd be shocked if
> that means much less than an hour in practice.
> 
> Who wants to wait an hour to download their mailbox? How about twenty
> hours?
> 
> John McCarthy used to (maybe still) have a .sig which said "Those who
> will not do arithmetic are doomed to speak nonsense". Indeed.
> 

Sorry, why would I want to "download my mailbox"? Is this an argument for
or against pushing *all* mail to the end-user?
 

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