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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Spam Control Considered Harmful
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. ************************************************************** Justin W. Newton voice: +1-650-482-2840 Senior Network Architect fax: +1-650-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net Legislative and Policy Director, ISP/C http://www.ispc.org "The People You Know. The People You Trust." **************************************************************
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