Re:$1 million in bandwidth
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Spam, Milord
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He used dial-up accounts: ~$20/month. 56 kbit/sec -> 18 GBytes/month. $1/GByte at least.
Assuming for the sake of estimate that 1 email needs 10KB (1KB headers + all that html crap), he used $165,000 worth of bandwidth.
However, an average dial-up user spends substantially less than 24 hours/day online, which drives the price up. E.g. if the average is 4 hours/day, then the poor sob waisted 165*6 ~ $1M.
Re:Earthlink Abuse Department Rejoices
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Spam, Milord
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· Score: 2, Funny
It reminds me of a soda tv commercial I saw couple years ago: Two d00des are watching tv commercial for the soda they drink. They see awesome bikini-clad girls dancing on Hawaiian beach, drinking the soda, all in LSD-inspired colors. One of the guys sips from his can and exclaims: "mine is busted".
How about holding spammers to their promises? I mean considering commercial emails to be contracts, so if they promised "free $$$", they have to give them to you. All those penis enlargement promises could become very exciting for those eligible if fulfilled sequentially:-)
The following article in The New York Times recently cought my attention:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/national/27JOBS. html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=
Specifically, the last 2 paragraphs. To spare you the trouble of registering and scrolling down: it's a 56 years old woman laid off from Bayer in 2001, unable to find a job in 2 years.
Guess what is she poised to do now...
Try to plot those "spam volume surged from 10% to 40%" and Dow Jones charts together, - I don't think it's a coincidence. Several million people including hundreds of thousands of programmers went out of the loop in 2 years, with less and less hope for better economy. What fraction of that army is looking for "business opportunities" now? A plausible estimate would be the same as for the spam response rate, which is 0.01-1% (the numbers i see in various articles on the subject), - quite enough to fill up everybody's in-box.
The future is promissing though. Sooner or later people will sort out all those enrons and worldcoms, figure out what they want and push Dow and Nasdaq over 12,000 and 5,000 respectively, and you'll find Alan Ralsky toiling in the cubicle next to yours, bitching about the boss...
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He used dial-up accounts: ~$20/month.
56 kbit/sec -> 18 GBytes/month.
$1/GByte at least.
Assuming for the sake of estimate that 1 email
needs 10KB (1KB headers + all that html crap),
he used $165,000 worth of bandwidth.
However, an average dial-up user spends
substantially less than 24 hours/day online,
which drives the price up.
E.g. if the average is 4 hours/day, then the poor sob waisted 165*6 ~ $1M.
"Homocidal ..." - man, that's harsh.
I'm wondering how does he size up against the "top 180 responsible for 90% of all spam". Apparently, he is not in the ROKSO list.
It reminds me of a soda tv commercial I saw couple years ago:
Two d00des are watching tv commercial for the soda they drink. They see awesome bikini-clad girls dancing on Hawaiian beach, drinking the soda, all in LSD-inspired colors. One of the guys sips from his can and exclaims: "mine is busted".
How about holding spammers to their promises? :-)
I mean considering commercial emails to be
contracts, so if they promised "free $$$",
they have to give them to you. All those penis
enlargement promises could become very exciting
for those eligible if fulfilled sequentially
aforementioned article in NYT>
My apologies for messy format (never used html mail before).
The following article in The New York Times recently cought my attention: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/27/national/27JOBS. html?th=&pagewanted=print&position=
Specifically, the last 2 paragraphs. To spare you the trouble of registering and scrolling down: it's a 56 years old woman laid off from Bayer in 2001, unable to find a job in 2 years.
Guess what is she poised to do now...
Try to plot those "spam volume surged from 10% to 40%" and Dow Jones charts together, - I don't think it's a coincidence. Several million people including hundreds of thousands of programmers went out of the loop in 2 years, with less and less hope for better economy. What fraction of that army is looking for "business opportunities" now? A plausible estimate would be the same as for the spam response rate, which is 0.01-1% (the numbers i see in various articles on the subject), - quite enough to fill up everybody's in-box.
The future is promissing though. Sooner or later people will sort out all those enrons and worldcoms, figure out what they want and push Dow and Nasdaq over 12,000 and 5,000 respectively, and you'll find Alan Ralsky toiling in the cubicle next to yours, bitching about the boss...