North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?
<[email protected]> writes: > > It does not cost "very little" to recieve spam. > > It costs the end-user very little to recieve spam. I'll echo Paul's comments about the cost of my time. In my case, a half hour a day seems about right (compared to Paul's hour a day). I suspect you may have a very different perception about the value of your time than Paul and I have about the value of ours. I am sure that we have customers whose time is worth a lot and whose time is worth very little. Over half of our customers, however, are in countries where there is a per-minute cost to being off-hook on a dialup. They see a very direct cost to download spam, aside from the human costs. > Whether we like it or not however, this is a cost of doing business now, and > is a normal part of determining your cost of goods sold (at least it *should* > be). Counting inventory shrinkage costs as part of the cost of doing business at a retail establishment does not change the fact that shoplifting is a crime. > > Spam is theft, plain and simple. > > Spam is a reality that none of us, either alone or in concert, will ever be > able to eradicate. That makes the general gnashing of teeth == tilting at > windmills. Your position is noted. > Our time is probably the most expensive part of an ISPs "spam > cleanups" budget - automating a filter system (for those who specifically ask > for it, of course) via the purchase of services from Vixie or your favorite > equivalent is likely to be a reasonably inexpensive alternative to having us > spinning our wheels. <asbestos underwear in place ;-> You have incomplete information. That's all I'm going to say about it. ---Rob
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