On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Keith Moore wrote:
Spam exists because there is an (almost zero) fixed cost associated with
sending it out.
false. snail mail spam exists despite having significant costs associated
with sending it.
That's pedantically correct, but it completely ignores the point of just
about every message posted to this discussion so far.
If postal junk mail operated in the same economic fashion as electronic
junk mail, you would get truckloads of it. If electronic mail cost as
much as postal mail, you'd get far less of it. The cost *is* a factor,
and it makes the difference between "X exists" and "X causes expensive
problems for everyone with an address and everyone using the
infrastructure."
Postal spam EXISTS, but until dump trucks start dropping loads of it
everyone's from yard on a daily basis, and 20-50 loads on random yards at
random times, and making a substantial contribution to traffic congestion
in general, there is nothing to be gained by equating postal spam with
electronic spam.
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Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
http://www.natew.com
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