Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful

["Justin W. Newton" <justin () priori net>]

At 08:36 AM 10/30/97 -0800, Turnando Fuad wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > compared to (my experience of) the problem. We get spam, so do our
customers,
> > > but it's a couple of messages, each of ~500 bytes. Even on modems
connections
> > [snip]
> >
> > Because you happen to not be getting very much is no reason to believe
> > that everyone is so lucky.  Anyone who has been around for any length of
> > time, posts or has posted to newsgroups, is the contact for any number
> > of domains/ASNs/netblocks, or even hosts any number of domains gets
> > bucketfuls.   
> >
> > Often times, they work from old archives of Usenet as well. I've received
> > garbage forwarded from old addresses I haven't used since '92 or '93.
> >
> > It is unrealistic to believe that one's expereince is sufficeintly
> > representative to be able to generalize and define the scope of the
> > whole problem.
>
> I think another question to ask is how much are we willing to spend to
> fight spam. Justin Newton(in the NANOG meeting) mentioned $400 million as
> what *all* ISPs spent to deal spam. 

Actually, Vinny Bono came up with that number, not me.  

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