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

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "kevinfreels.com" <kevin at kevinfreels.com> wrote:

> But there is no motivation to give you anything for free. Spammers
> pay for internet connections too. They contribute to the overall
> number of users and as the number of users goes up, holding the
> cost per user down. Since they
> use a lot of bandwidth it may not actually decrease, but removing the
> spammers would decrease the users which in turn may cause an increase
> to costs to consumers.

They use far more than what they pay for. Bandwidth with email is a two
ended affair. They may pay for their sending their email, but they
don't pay for the reception end. 

Furthermore, your cute little costs per user are irrelevant unless you
extrapolate it to the 20 or 30 million yahoo users. A buck here, a buck
there, pretty soon you are eliminating an entire years profits.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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