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

[Dan Clemmensen]

kevinfreels.com wrote:

>>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.
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>>
>
>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.
>
>  
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Much less than that. Bandwidth cost is nearly zero percent of your cable 
connection cost to your provider, and e-mail is nearly zero percent of 
your bandwidth usage. Compared to even one small photo on a web page, a 
spam message is insignificant.