Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:49:37 -0500 From: "Bob Hall" <rjhalljr@starpower.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: this spam Message-ID: <20011127164937.A605@starpower.net> In-Reply-To: <20011127104635.Y15780-100000@localhost>; from davidk@accretivetg.com on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:48:29AM -0800 References: <000101c17718$77d43180$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011127104635.Y15780-100000@localhost>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:48:29AM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: > What about the extra price involved in maintaining the filters, filtering > out spam that got past the filters, etc? Storage that does nothing but sit > there and occasionally gets backed up (even though it's not common to back > up a mail spool, I think, due to its nature) vs. employees maintaining > lists, reading spam, inputing additional filters, etc - I think I can see > which is cheaper. :-) There's a relatively small, local ISP in my area called Erols. They keep three people on staff to deal with spam. (Check their web site.) Erols competes on price and is too small to have money to waste on something that doesn't either return a profit or save more money than it costs. If it's cheaper to ignore spam, why do small ISPs with razor thin margins bother to deal with it aggressively? Bob Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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