economics of spam (Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?)
Anne & Lynn Wheeler
lynn at garlic.com
Tue May 13 10:12:53 PDT 2003
... but i would contend that the infrastructure costs associated with a
billion or two spams per day are significantly higher than the costs that
are currently being incurred by the spammers .... in effect the industry as
a whole is underwriting a significant percentage of the actual costs, which
makes spamming such an attractive economic activity. one of the issues is
to reflect the fully loaded costs of a billion or two spams per day back to
the spammers.
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
Internet trivia 20th anv http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
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