According to the post by Paul Judge ("ASRG Meeting
Minutes"), some organizations are estimating $1-$2 per
piece of spam that gets through filters... that certainly
is not .05 / month.
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:32:43 -0700 (MST)
Vernon Schryver <vjs(_at_)calcite(_dot_)rhyolite(_dot_)com> wrote:
From: "Bob Atkinson" <bobatk(_at_)exchange(_dot_)microsoft(_dot_)com>
...
> - 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.
...
I can assure you that there are email systems in which
the CPU cycles,
disk space, and bandwidth are very much critical cost
factors.
That reasoning is often advanced by people fighting spam
and some
large outfits, but it is bogus. I'd be glad to get a
tiny fraction
of the money that AOL spends fighting spam, but that only
says that
even a tiny, insignificant cost per user can be
multiplied by a big
number of users to yield a big cost.
What is your guess for how much AOL spends per user to
deal with spam?
Mine is about $0.05/month or 2% or 3% of their price for
a cheap account.
How much do you guess AOL spends on advertising to deal
with churn
and attract new customers? I think it's about 100 times
as much.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com
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