At 5:31 AM -0600 3/20/03, Scott A Crosby wrote:
Thus, I've still thought that the mantra of 'stealing my bandwidth' is
an argument I cannot understand, because of how weak it is. I have no
The problem isn't an end-user problem. It's a mail-server problem.
Matt just posted a stat showing that spam accounted for 5% of all
email traffic. (And it's mail traffic I'm concerned about--since
it's the bandwidth to my mail server that's a problem.) I'll give
good odds that that was percentage of *delivered* mail. (Matt?)
What it doesn't count are the millions and millions of messages that
couldn't be delivered, had to be rejected, and then had the
destination machine "temporarily" unavailable, and sat in the queue
retrying for three days before they were discarded. That can consume
a serious amount of bandwidth and disk space.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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