Re: [Asrg] Good versus bad (was Re: RMX Records )

["Chris Lewis" <[e-mail]>]

David F. Skoll wrote:
 > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Chris Lewis wrote:

 >>Alan knows of what he speaks.
 >>See http://striker.ottawa.on.ca

 > I have a hard time believing that's typical, except for large
 > companies and ISP's.

Nobody's suggesting it's typical.  It's just where we're all headed if
we don't put on the brakes.

There are plenty of reports of in-the-ballpark-comparable experiences
with much smaller organizations.

Striker is, admittedly, a far out case, where it looks like a single
spammer malfunction has led to a continuous and unstoppable DDOS.

On the other hand, our spamtrap metrics are what a, say,
long-existing[+] 100,000[*] user company looks like after 18+ months of
turning off the deliverability of the domain. Imagine if it was an ISP
with considerably higher turnover and similarly long life.  100,000
users is a _small_ provider in comparison to moderate to large ISPs...
AOL blocks three and a half orders of magnitude more spam than our
spamtrap represents...

[*] for reasons I won't go into here, what was a 10,000 employee company
probably looked like a 100,000-seat ISP on the Internet in terms of
proliferation of email addresses.  Thank god we got rid of that mess.

[+] long-existing?  Consider: the domain behind that spamtrap was in the
game early enough to get a class A with no questions asked.


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