From: John Fleming
Newsgroups: alt.consumers.experiences,edm.general,calgary.general,alt.marketing.online.ebay
Subject: Re: Prove this wrong!!!!
Organization: The Place Where Shadows Dwell
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:19:14 GMT
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:38:05 -0000, while chained to a desk in
the scriptorium, "Andrew L. J. Heenan"
wrote:
> $"John Fleming" wrote...
> $> Maybe, but my ISP has to invest in higher capacity
> $> hard drives to store the stuff until I get around to
> $> downloading and filtering/deleting it. A cost, by the
> $> way, that is reflected in the cost to me of my ISP.
> $> As well, maybe you can afford to spend hours fine
> $> tuning your filters as spammers figure out ways to
> $> get around said filters. I, for one, can think of other
> $> things I would rather do with mine.
> $
> $If your ISP built a spam filtering system, they'd need LESS storage space.
> $And as for filtering - the occasional tinkering takes much less time than
> $checking and deleting individual emails on a daily basis. Unless you get
> $less than a dozen a day.
That spam filtering system is still a cost to the ISP's
subscribers. It is not the spammer who pays the cost, it is the
recipient.
> $And if you pay for a service (less than $20.00 pa), you have virtually no
> $filtering to worry about, and far more spare time.
> $
> $It used to be OK to say "Just delete it and get a life" - for most of us,
> $that no longer holds true, there's simply too much spam.
--
John Fleming
Edmonton, Canada
A Dreamer is One Who Can Only Find Her
Way by Moonlight.
-- Oscar Wilde