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

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Dan Clemmensen <dgc at cox.net> wrote:
> 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.

Spam messages today typically contain one or more graphics, if you
haven't noticed. This is done as a means of verifying that the email
address is active. Size is typically around 20k.

One or two spam messages is insignificant. 200 spam messages a day, 365
days a year, per each one of 40 million customers, that is over 140
billion spam messages a year.

Assuming the average customer checks their email once every week, this
means the average daily disk load is 53 terabytes. This is not small
potatos. This is 160 terabytes of RAID space needed to maintain space
for spam. This is also a bandwidth load of 350 megabits per second.
Also not small potatos.

Add in real estate, network infrastructure, personnel to maintain all
of this, you are talking an extremely significant cost of doing
business that spammers impose on companies that provide email space to
recipients of spam.

=====
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) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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