On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 08:10:02PM -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote: > On 3 Jul 2000, at 15:15, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > > > We were spammed today. Laurie wandered out onto the porch this > > morning to find a flyer on the front porch, for a "power management" > > seminar. They leafletted the entire neighborhood.... > > Indeed, although an important difference to keep in mind is that that > kind of spam dealt with in seconds with a keystroke or two [or even > automatically in most cases], whereas the hardcopy stuff we've learned to > just live with has to be handled, sorted, and carted to the dump [no > recycling for that sort of stuff in this area] and actually wastes > *real*time*... For what it's worth, electronic spam does in fact consume real time for me, far more than the trivial couple of minutes a month that sorting the junk mail does. The "save-a-tree, send-a-spam" shtick is a Sanford Wallace myth. It's not cheap, it's not easy, and it's not trivial. The stories I've heard from other sysadmins indicate that I am not alone. Pumping a high volume of spam (thousands of messages a minute) through a single server is nearly always going to cause someone grief. [I know that the dead horse is now only a distant memory of those who once beat it, but sometimes I just can't help myself.] -- Regards, Tim Pierce RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator and Chief Hacking Officer
