Re: MS mail bombs
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:09, Olav Lavell wrote:
> Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani (bijan@psq.com) wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3
> > > mail accounts.
> >
> > What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting
> > to offer spam & virus filtering.
>
> Yeah, but for a fee...
>
> Which can be totally justifiable from an ISP point of view, since after
> all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come
Bull. By using spam/virus filtering on their end, they are saving
on bandwidth between the ISP and the end-user.
Thus, even if they can't/don't use SpamAssassin & Amavisd, and must
spend money on filtering s/w, it still saves them money by not having
to upgrade the downstream h/w.
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Jefferson, LA USA
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