Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:30:30 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "David Kirchner" <davidk@accretivetg.com> Cc: <jacks@sage-american.com>, "Stephen Hovey" <shovey@buffnet.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: this spam Message-ID: <000001c177d6$2cf75d40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011127104635.Y15780-100000@localhost>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: David Kirchner [mailto:davidk@accretivetg.com] >Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 10:48 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: jacks@sage-american.com; Stephen Hovey; >freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: this spam > > >On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> Yah - I'll bet you will be eating those words when your ISP comes >to you and >> jacks up your mailbox price an extra $5 a month to pay for all that >> "non censorship" your advocating. It's pretty easy to have these >high-falutin >> ideals when your not paying for them. > >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. :-) > When your looking at mailservers with tens of thousands of users on them even a small change in the average mailbox size can mean the difference between putting another 2-3 thousand users on the server or having to build a brand new one. Granted, if your a small ISP with 100 or fewer users on a mailserver, the storage is cheap. But big ISP's don't screw around with garbage-grade IDE disk drives that you buy at CompUSA, their hardware is considerably more expensive. You should read the AOL administrators postings in comp.mail.sendmail to get a feel for what they are dealing with there. I noted today in the business section that AT&T is dropping their $4.95 a month dialup plan. What I'm talking about is already happening right in front of us, yet your looking for an excuse to justify that it's not. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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