AnarchoCyphertopian technologies (wasRE:[extropy-chat]Reccommendations for a mailing list)

[kevinfreels.com]

> What this means is that the the incremental cost to yahoo for each real
> message I receive is six times larger than it should be. This means
> that they need to charge six times as much for the ads that appear on
> the pages my browser loads than they would otherwise, they make six
> times less profit, or offer me six times less features to me, their
> user, or a combination of all three.

FUZZY MATH ALERT!!!!

Mike, you are better than this. There is no cost per message. Much of the
cost is infrastructure. If all spam stopped, my $40 per month cable
connection would not suddenly cost me $6.67 per month. I don;t have time to
waste on the calculation, but I doubt that the spam factor increases the
cost of my connection any more than a dollar or two per month.