At 08:36 AM 10/30/97 -0800, Turnando Fuad wrote:
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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.
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