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RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 20:28:43 -0700
Perhaps now I'm the one being pedantic, but you're confusing "somebody" with the owner of the resources involved in the sending.
Look, we're the ones asking what percentage of Internet traffic is junk, so we're the somebody. We know what we mean and can do a reasonably good job of explaining it. Basically, it's junk if the sender wouldn't have wanted to send it, the receiver wouldn't have wanted to receive it, the owner of a computer was duped or tricked into sending it, or it's an attack, and so on. It's not complicated. We do have to pass some value judgments. But any number of things we measure requires such value judgments. DS
Current thread:
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?, (continued)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? William B. Norton (May 05)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Marshall Eubanks (May 05)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? William B. Norton (May 05)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Petri Helenius (May 06)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Mark Borchers (May 06)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Suresh Ramasubramanian (May 06)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Valdis . Kletnieks (May 06)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? David Barak (May 05)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? David Schwartz (May 05)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Steve Gibbard (May 05)
- RE: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? David Schwartz (May 05)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Valdis . Kletnieks (May 06)
- Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk? Iljitsch van Beijnum (May 06)