It appears that Michael Thomas via NANOG <[email protected]> said: >Since this is a network operator list, here's my question. What >percentage of traffic is spam? That is, total traffic? My guess is that >it's minuscule. That and how negatively does it cut into bottom line for >an operator like an ISP? I hardly see ISP based email anymore these days.
In terms of percentage of total bits, I'm sure you're right. Mail is a sliver of bandwidth, spam is between half and 90% of that. The problems are on the one hand, having a mailbox full of spam makes mail less useful (I am so tired of my morning B2B blasts from Outlook and Gmail), but on the other a lot of is linked to real crime with significant financial consequences to the victims. I agree that the incentives are skewed, with little incentive for ISPs to deal with it. I note that Comcast who used to run a large mail system recently handed it all over to Yahoo, presumably because Yahoo has economies of scale they don't. R's, John _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5HB53KCL7LOOINSTEUVRGPNOP6VLIA4Z/
