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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:22:05 -0800
From:      rick norman <rick.norman@lmco.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: this spam
Message-ID:  <3C04120C.58F8D495@lmco.com>
References:  <000101c17718$77d43180$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011127104635.Y15780-100000@localhost> <20011127164937.A605@starpower.net>

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Spam is in the eye of the beholder.  I would hate to think someone
upstream from me was deciding what was good for me to eat.
I especially like spam musabi.

Rick

Bob Hall wrote:

> 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
>
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