[13266] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: economics of spam (Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Tue May 13 14:24:03 2003
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Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:12:53 -0600
To: Tim Dierks <tim@dierks.org>
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Cc: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>,
Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>, bear <bear@sonic.net>,
cypherpunks@lne.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.4.2.20030512210012.0818ee18@127.0.0.1>
... but i would contend that the infrastructure costs associated with a
billion or two spams per day are significantly higher than the costs that
are currently being incurred by the spammers .... in effect the industry as
a whole is underwriting a significant percentage of the actual costs, which
makes spamming such an attractive economic activity. one of the issues is
to reflect the fully loaded costs of a billion or two spams per day back to
the spammers.
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
Internet trivia 20th anv http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
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