From: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-mailman@fmp.com>
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:15 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Lindsay Haisley wrote:
I was intrigued by your comments on the economics of spam...
This doesn't directly answer your question (i.e., it's even further OT), but I found it interesting. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7719281.stm>
Actually, I've been reading the source paper about which this article was written. It's online as a PDF at:
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/2008-ccs-spamalytics.pdf
I would willingly pay a hundredth of a cent (or so) per email sent if
it would reduce spam to near-zero.
According to this study, $0.0001 per email sent would more than wipe
out the spammers' profit, but sending legit email to every one of my
couple-dozen Mailman lists would only cost about a dime. I wouldn't
even bother to pass that cost on to my customers.
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