Re: The utilitiy of IP is at stake here

On Fri, 30 May 2003 15:53:10 MDT, Vernon Schryver 
<vjs(_at_)calcite(_dot_)rhyolite(_dot_)com>  said:

> That's true only if you accept stuff in the mass media uncritically.
> The mass media frequently get almost every thing else wrong by many
> orders of magnitude, so why pick this tidbit to believe?
> For Heaven's sake!  Do a sanity check and think about how you would
> spend $0.5B on filtering spam.
I'd believe $500M on a forklift upgrade of the entire Hotmail/MSN infrastructure
if it had to deal with both the added volume of mail and the added resource
expense of filtering spam.  If they're seeing 2G spams/day, they're doing
about 2,000 times our volume - and our mail hub setup is about $500K (and
those of you who say that's too expensive, tough ;).  So they're about 1,000
times as much money for 2,000 as much volume - so in the right ballbark.

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