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Re: [Asrg] Spam, defined, and permissions

2004-12-28 17:56:12

On December 28, 2004 at 14:57 jrk(_at_)merseymail(_dot_)com (Jon Kyme) wrote:

Another fallacy of the disk is cheap argument is:


Around, I dunno, 30% of the US (I think closer to 50% in Europe, and
much less elsewhere) has broadband (DSL or cable.) Let's stick to the
US for the sake of discussion.


er, OK, not sure how that helps the discussion ...

It gives us one number to use in the example, with the other 140+
nations' left as an exercise for the reader. And some acknowledgement
that what is true techno-demographically about the US might also be
true about Europe or Japan or Brazil but may not be relevant in Tonga
or Malawi or Nauru, but then again we probably aren't working on any
problems of interest to Tongans or Malawians or Nauruns. So let's just
say the point being made is certainly relevant in the US and probably
in countries techno-demographically like the US, but certainly not
everywhere, not Tonga or Malawi or Nauru (well, maybe Nauru), and move
on to the discussion itself...


Sorry, why would I want to "download my mailbox"? Is this an argument for
or against pushing *all* mail to the end-user?

The person whose note I was responding to thinks it should all be
end-user and all works fine because disk is cheap.

Anyhow, at some point if a 1GB mailbox is desireable, and certain
companies (e.g., those whose name rhymes with noogle) think they are,
then some significant portion of that mailbox has to be looked at or
otherwise vetted. Agreed that often one can vet by subject or other
small tokens where some vetting method exists (typically a webmail or
imap interface) but I was just pointing out THAT BIGGER HAS ITS
PROBLEMS ALSO and the fact that raw disk space is cheap doesn't solve
all those problems, at least not w/o potentially creating some others.


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