From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 14:22:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A97237B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:22:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from emss01g01.ems.lmco.com ([129.197.181.54]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19202 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:22:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-33 #38886) id <0GNH00801CSQG4@lmco.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:22:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from cui1.lmms.lmco.com ([129.197.1.64]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-33 #38886) with ESMTP id <0GNH00NNECSLPD@lmco.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:21:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from lmco.com (CONNECTICUT1.lmms.lmco.com [129.197.23.84]) by cui1.lmms.lmco.com (8.11.0/8.9.2) with ESMTP id fARMLu608408 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:21:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:22:05 -0800 From: rick norman Subject: Re: this spam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3C04120C.58F8D495@lmco.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <000101c17718$77d43180$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011127104635.Y15780-100000@localhost> <20011127164937.A605@starpower.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message