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spam control again



On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 16:03, josephc at etards.net wrote:
> 
> I think the amount of life taken off my companies equipment due to SPAM 
> could be measured in milli-seconds

According to the statistics I've seen quoted, about half of all the
email being passed around the Net is spam.  So if your ISP has purchased
four T-1 lines to handle all its traffic, roughly half of that purchase
price can be accounted to spam.

-- 
"All our endeavor is based on the belief that, even in the middle of the
worst
depravities of war, man retains a fundamental minimum of humanity. 
Events
like this can make it very difficult to maintain this belief.  But
without it
we would have to admit that nothing distinguishes man from beast, *and
that we
will not admit*."  --a delegate of the International Committee of the
Red Cross
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