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John Savard wrote:

> admiral@ilos.net (Arthur D. Mira) wrote:
> >In can.infohighway, bs904@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Andrew Nellis) wrote:
>
> ><snip>
>
> >=>They appear to have no understanding that spamming requires, bu its
> >=>very nature, a theft of other people' resources.
>
> >Theft of other people's resources? Who or which 'other people', and
> >exactly what resources are being 'stolen'?
>
> Internet Service Providers need to allocate hard disk space to store
> your E-mail until you log on and read it.
>
> Spam means they need more hard disks to do that. Hard disks cost
> money.
>
> John Savard



Hard drives do not cost very much anymore. You can buy a tower of
9-18Gb drives for a few grand, to an ISP with a few hundred or a few
thousand users, this is not a lot of money to spend. How much space, in
your opinion, would be absorbed by spam on an average ISP's server?
Just wondering.

Buzz
Ottawa