[Mailman-Developers] AOL's requirements for spam complaints

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:19 PM -0800 2004/01/29, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

>  With the exception of network traffic, it's actually pretty trivial
>  stuff.

	Uh, no.  Not just "no", but "Hell, no!"

	Increased network traffic is one cost, yes.  But there are plenty 
of other additional costs as well, some of which are considerably 
more important.

>>   (zero cognitive
>>  benefit, plenty of headache).  Just because computers are faster 
>>now does not
>>  mean that resources are suddenly free (as in beer).
>
>  you might be surprised. Lots of benefit, no headaches.

	And you might be surprised.  Lots of benefit for the users, yes. 
Lots of cost on the system, also.

>  chuq (guess what I do for a living?)

	I know what you do for a living, and I know that you know what I 
have done for a living.

	The issue is not as simple as you make it out to be.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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