gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com wrote:
First off, if the E-mail is stored at the recipient end (where it
makes sense to keep it, and process it, since that's where the bulk
of the processing and storage resources are),
Then it has already consumed last-mile bandwidth, which can be the
most expensive part of the process, and is often the limiting factor.
Typical spam messages (once you strip the HTML garbage out of them)
Who strips the HTML? Do ISPs reject email with HTML? In that case,
why can't they reject other email that looks like spam (however that's
defined, preferably user-definably)?
As for TEMPORARY E-mail storage (say at a POP3 server), mind you
that it is the ISPs themselves who create that monster by trying to
discourage users from setting up their own POP3 servers (which in
fact is extremely simple to do, if you have a machine which is
online and running essentially all the time).
But is considerably trickier if you have dynamic IP, or you want to
have your machine online only when you want, or you just don't want to
eat the power bill to do what should be your ISP's job.
But even if you don't have a fulltime POP3 server, it's fairly
trivial to have a small background process running (as I do here)
which empties POP3 mailboxes every minute or two.
Which still assumes you have a machine always on with a full-time
connection.
But then too, it's TRULY difficult for me to feel terribly
sympathetic to an ISP who charges $80 a month for high-speed
connectivity and then grouses about devoting even $0.25 (total, not
per month) for 250Mb (peak!) of mirrored disk space at a POP3 server
to hold that customer's mail.
You've never run an ISP and priced storage, have you?
Seth
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