On 12/22/95 12:42 PM, Mike Holloway wrote:
>>I don't pay by the byte so the ones I get are merely
>>a nuisance, however, those who do pay by the connect second or byte are
>>subsidizing unwanted advertising.
>
>For the purposes of communicating the problem to people who are not affected
>(including some list owners BTW), this is not technically correct.  You're
>paying for it, whether you're paying by the byte or not.
 
At the margin (at least so far), the junk mail is a sufficiently small
fraction of the total load to squeeze into excess (or idle) capacity of a
large academic system that's paid for whether there's junk mail or not.
For all intents and purposes, the junk mail doesn't alter either my or the
University's cost.
 
Of course, if junk mail begins to run rampant, then there WILL be real
incremental costs.  I suppose in the absence of regulation, domain
administrators will be forced to resort to software that extends address
filtering to whole mail systems (bounce ANY mail from a given address or
even a given host or domain addressed to ANYONE in the administrator's
domain).
 
/s Murphy A. Sewall <[log in to unmask]> (860) 486-2489 voice
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