At 10:02 PM +0100 7/9/03, Jon Kyme wrote:
> And it's been going up by a factor of at least 2, every year, for
about as long as I've had the domain. This is the future of email for
everyone.
I don't see how that follows, but I can't prove that you're not right.
Take a random domain with a random number of addresses. Eventually
they start getting spam. Two things happen. First, no matter what
your churn, the addresses that got spam will continue to get
more--even if they stop existing. Furthermore, over time typos,
screwed up alphabet attacks and other factors will cause more and
more non-existent addresses to get spam. It always grows. It never
shrinks.
Although somewhere.com is behind striker on the curve (only 10
million bounces last year), I've also been seeing the factor of two
progression for the five or six years I've been tracking it.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
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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