On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 07:26 PM, Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu
wrote:
or having to deal with
what passes for a telco in most of Africa, as some readers almost
certainly
are.
I recently found myself bit by spam because the AFNOG mailing list
operates on a server that uses DSBL. It's only place my mail bounces as
spam (so far...) (I use bell sympatico in canada). This is just a
practical need for them as the total bandwidth in and out of Africa is
on the order of ~ 2Gbps [1]. So that spam is very expensive there.
simon
[1] mid 2002,
http://www.telegeography.com/resources/statistics/internet/
intereg_internet_band.html although potentially it could improve
dramatically, if the existing SAT-3/WASC/SAFE cable is fully tapped (it
has 120Gbps capacity