Tim Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 2 February 1999 at 13:05:26 -0500
> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 05:22:47AM -0500, Cris Daniluk wrote:
> > And what's to stop someone from buying a
> > static IP from their ISP with its own lovely domain and spamming the world
> > freely?
>
> The economics of static IP discourage it. ISPs in the U.S. often
> charge $200-300 in setup fees for static IP addresses, and typically
> an additional $100 per month. The spammer would have to be pretty
> sure that they would gross at least $400 per spam run in order to make
> it worthwhile, and I would guess that most spammers don't see anything
> close to that.
We hope you enjoy your visit to our timeline. Around here, static IPs
cost about another $5 a month (that's the rate currently quoted at
www.visi.com, for example, as well as the number in my memory, and the
number reported on this list by a number of other people). And for
ADSL, at least one local ISP (a different one) does them ALL as static
IPs by default. (I'm in Minneapolis MN).
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