From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com>
...
You're right, I was addressing two different issues in those two
different paragraphs. However I believe that spam volume is a
problem at the edge. Where the edge includes both small mail servers
and individuals. Remember too that bandwidth == user's time for a
dial-up. That's time they sit there waiting for their email to
arrive.
If you forget the blarney from anti-spam product salesritters and
netnews spammer fighters, and actually look at the numbers, you'll
see that's wrong. The time peole spend sitting waiting for their spam
to arrive is insignificant except in unusual cases. 30 seconds is
enough to download a lot of spam, but only 30 seconds is about the
training time for a pre-56K modem.
The volume of spam is a problem, but only in human attention and not
network bits/second, CPU cycles, or disk space, unless you have
thousands of users' spam to deal with.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com
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