On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:12:18PM +0000, Sam wrote:
> Len Budney writes:
>
> > > Current economics of spam pretty much prevent anyone from sending
> > > out spam with one envelope recipient per copy. With the name of the
> > > game being "send as many copies as you can before you get thrown
> > > off"...
> >
> > That's true largely because spammers are fairly clueless, and authors
>
> No, it's true because they operate from 28.8 dialups.
>
> > Efficient: On a Pentium under BSD/OS, qmail can easily sustain
> > 200000 local messages per day---that's separate messages injected
> =====
>
> Uhhh... We're not talking about local mail.
>
> Over a 28.8 dialup a spambag can easily spew out about a million copies per
> hour, using long lists of BCCs.
2880/32*60*60=324000
32 is the size of a RCPT TO: for a short address.
2880 is, ofcourse, the cps achieved. Compression might help a bit.
But for a million, he'd need 64K.
Greetz, Peter.
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