-----Original Message-----
From: asrg-admin(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org [mailto:asrg-admin(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]
On Behalf Of
Vernon
Schryver
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:02 AM
To: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
The trouble with that reasoning is that:
- the technical costs of dealing with spam are trivial per user
except
in rare cases. All email is on the order of 5% or 10% of HTTP
traffic.
Thus, the CPU cycles, disk space, and bandwidth are insignificant
compared to other services that are considered too cheap too meter.
While the global statistic may be true (I don't know, but it seems at
least plausible), I don't think one can reasonably draw the inference
depicted here.
The rub is that of the distribution of the various forms of traffic, how
it is spread across various servers.
I can assure you that there are email systems in which the CPU cycles,
disk space, and bandwidth are very much critical cost factors.
Bob
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