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On Futureproofing Spamhaus
BMcWilliams writes "Spamhaus director Steve Linford announced a new funding plan Tuesday. According to Linford's announcement, large ISPs and big corporate users of the Spamhaus zone transfer service (renamed the Spamhaus Data Feed Service) will be required to pay an annual subscription fee ranging between $190 and $14,500.(The free public-query mirrors will continue to exist.) The point of the new plan is to ensure that 'the millions of users who rely on our anti-spam systems can be assured we'll be here for as long as spammers plague the Internet'."
Won't these costs just be forced down onto the customers? Sure, it funds Spamhaus, but why is this a good thing for a user who doesn't have to deal with spam? I get maybe one spam e-mail a day.
You're the same kind of a**hole who complains that some of his taxes are going to subsidize medical care for blind, quadrapalegic veterans. 'It doesn't help me personally, so why should I pay for it?' Talk about self-centered!
But, since you are that type of person, I have a suggestion: Your ISP should turn off all spam filtering and then force you to personally pay for all of the additional bandwidth, storage, and servers necessary to handle the load. Oh, and when other customers leave the service because they are now getting spam, your monthly bill will increase by the amount that they were paying to cover the ISP's losses.
You have an AOL address. That means that you are probably paying well over $20 per month for dial-up service. If you're so frigging concerned about the $.000034 per month that AOL might pass on to you (yes, that's the real number assuming $14,500/year divided amoung 35 million AOL subscribers), then why aren't you using any of the under-$10 ISPs out there?
It's not a wild shot in the dark, asshat.
It's another excuse for big companies to raise prices by an unreasonable amount.
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.