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Re: Calling ISPs: does bandwidth matter to your bot tom line?

2004-01-22 08:21:52


On 21 Jan 2004 Andy Lester <spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com> wrote:

I think the relevant discussion, which nobody has addressed, is when to

Even more, the original question from Meng was:

1) How much of your bottom line costs are bandwidth?

2) How much of your bandwidth costs are email?

Depends a lot on who you are talking to.  An ISP may find that there are 
significant costs in bandwidth and hardware sizing in receiving email.  
This may be incidental to a large corporate user who is using their 
connections for transferring large amounts of data between various parts 
of the company.  In my discussions with large companies the bandwidth 
loss caused by spam is not really all that much of a problem.  There may 
be a man hour loss at the user level in getting rid of the spam but, 
based on my experience, I'm not all that sure it's considered all that 
significant.  They are much more worried by the false alarm rate that the 
spam rejection causes.

A mail system admins job is to first make sure they process ALL good 
mail.  Next, and much further down their priority list, is to block spam 
at the server level.  

The receipt of the spam is not all that much of a cost problem as long as 
they can keep it out of the user inbox.  Loss of a single request for 
quote is much more of a problem.




xoa

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