Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:22:05 -0800 From: rick norman <rick.norman@lmco.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this spam Message-ID: <3C04120C.58F8D495@lmco.com> References: <000101c17718$77d43180$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011127104635.Y15780-100000@localhost> <20011127164937.A605@starpower.net>
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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
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