Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics

Yes. Based on how bit traffic is moved regardless of who moves it, once it's
off the backbone, its a loss leader, right in front of nntp.

-M

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Martin Hannigan
hannigan@verisign.com
Verisign, Inc.

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Sent: Fri Dec 31 07:37:10 2004
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Spam Ecomomics

Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:

> It is obvious HTTP would win, and P2P would be a good rival, but
> email is not far behind. Statistics change between different service
> providers, but when you need 30% more bandwidth because of spam,
> it's still a cost.
>
> Thing is, who makes money from these 30% being provided? Answer is,
> everyone but the lowest in the chain of consumers.

Only if the costs are passed on down.  If they can't be (which seems
to be the case now) then whoever eats them loses.  That's more likely
to be the ISPs.

Seth

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