Re: [IMRG] directing the discussion

[stanislav shalunov <shalunov at internet2.edu>]

"Tom Petch" <nwnetworks at dial.pipex.com> writes:

> traffic by application; one frequent discussion point with spam/UBE
> is the notion that operators do not care because this is such a
> small part of the load, BitTorrent and such like being the majority
> use of the Internet; true or false?

True.  See http://netflow.internet2.edu/weekly/ (the mail category
includes all email-related protocols that can be easily identified).

Spam is a huge problem, but the resource it consumes most is human
time and attention, but network capacity.  In other words, only very
indirectly a problem for a backbone operator.

What I find puzzling about this question is that the purported
recipients of the answer are operators.  Doesn't every operator worth
half a bronze bit know how much email consumes in capacity on his
network?

-- 
Stanislav Shalunov		http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/

Just my 0.086g of Ag.

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