Re: [PLUG] Re: what is the best way to bulk email 2 million opt inemail addresses?

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

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On Dec 10, 2004, at 1:18 AM, Pat Regan wrote:
> You are making it sound like 2 million emails would chew up an 
> expensive
> chunk of bandwidth.  I just took a peek in my spam folder and it looks 
> to
> me like most of the spam email I get is under 4k.
>
> 4k * 2 million = 7.6 gig
>
> I am paying 15 dollars a month for my internet server and that 
> includes 50
> gig per month at much better than T1 speeds.  I could easily fit a few 
> of
> these jobs per month into my bandwidth quota...  That makes each
> individual email so cheap it may as well be free.  :)

Two points:

1. Most spam is small in size.

2. 2 million emails is not really a lot.

Having said that, your argument is akin to saying "I can take one punch 
to the face because it probably won't kill me". Spam will grow to fill 
whatever bandwidth and space allocation you give it. By the time you 
were to actually receive 2 million spam emails, you'd notice that it 
was a significant drain on your email infrastructure in terms of 
bandwidth, storage space, technical support and archiving. 
Sarbanes-Oxley now demands that some companies archive all 
communications, effectively making those companies pay for each piece 
of spam twice.

As well, there is a fundamental omission in your logic above, in that, 
while you certainly have the bandwidth to receive all that mail, I 
would doubt that your obviously-shared server has a quota large enough 
to let you accumulate 8GB worth of spam (given real mail and whatever 
else you store on the Web, FTP, etc). Receiving that much spam is thus, 
in effect, a denial of service attack, preventing you from receiving 
legitimate mail. And even if you had a quota that big, would you want 
to have to sift through 2 million emails?

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Tobias DiPasquale
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