Re: [Asrg] Spam, defined, and permissions

John Levine <asrg(_at_)johnlevine(_dot_)com> wrote:

> > Sorry, John, why would we have to accept and store all this unwanted mail?
> What Mouse said -- you can't filter it until you've got a copy of it.
> The large ISPs I know tell me that 90% or more of the mail that's sent
> to them is spam, so if you're going to filter everything rather than
> reject most of it before receipt using various sorts IP blocks, that
> suggests an order of magnitude increase in the work the mail servers
> have to do.
So you have to "accept" (well, not in the "250 yeah whatever" sense)
it; but you don't store it for very long, maybe not even long enough
to write to disk.

> > This is the first time I've heard that the "end of spam" should come
> > in at, or under, $20/mo per seat.
> Here in the US at least, that's been the going price for basic
> Internet access for at least a decade, give or take a few dollars.
But that includes access.  Accounts without access (but with email,
etc.) are about half that.

Seth

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