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Re: [PLUG] cultural ethics of email and spam-China
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:25:56PM -0400, zuzu wrote:
> On 10/17/07, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
> > Sonny To wrote:
> > > unrealistic low price? that's bs... I lived in shanghai for 2yrs and
> > > I was getting FTTB (fiber to the building) 10mbps for about $10/month
> >
> > Then perhaps you are the person to ask...
> > Why is there such an incredible amount of spam coming out of China?
> > It's ironic that so much time is spent censoring incoming, yet outgoing
> > is a pretty serious issue.
>
> a pretty serious issue? really? half-joking, are your internets
> getting stuck in your tubes because of all the Chinese emails?
>
> admittedly, I'm not a full-time mailserver admin, but I've asked the
> question before, why it's worth more of your time (or hiring someone)
> to sort categorize spam from other email rather than just throwing
> more bandwidth at the problem?
>
> maybe this is how shanghai and the rest of the world (who have
> affordable fibre optic internet upstreams) prefer to deal with spam --
> just ignore it. and the only reason USA residents get a bee in their
> bonnet is because they don't have bandwidth parity?
Its not about bandwidth, its about time and productivity. Plus, bandwidth
is more expensive than either disk, memory or CPU these days.
--
Toby DiPasquale
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