Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Len Budney wrote:
> > What will you match on then?
>
> 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
of toys like "Spam Bomber 2000" are almost as stupid. This limit is
rather artificial, though: on this mailing list, I'd expect you to
know that very well!
Efficient: On a Pentium under BSD/OS, qmail can easily sustain
200000 local messages per day---that's separate messages injected
and delivered to mailboxes in a real test! Although remote
deliveries are inherently limited by the slowness of DNS and SMTP,
qmail overlaps 20 simultaneous deliveries by default, so it zooms
quickly through mailing lists. (This is why I finished qmail: I had
to get a big mailing list set up.)
When Linux hits 61.4% market share, the first person to think of:
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject /usr/bin/spam-blaster-inject
may make a tidy sum. (And yes, I know there is _slightly_ more to it
than that).
Len.
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A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies
shall perish. --Proverbs 19:9
