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BandwidthBandwidthPosted May 6, 2004 14:21 UTC (Thu) by vondo (guest, #256)Parent article: 82% of email is spam I've heard this bandwidth argument from the Cantor and Seigel (sp?) days, and never been convinced. Even if 82% of e-mail is spam, (and for me it's about 1/2 that), all the e-mail I get in a typical day probably doesn't add up to the amount of bandwidth I consume when I visit CNN's homepage. If I watch streaming video or audio, or download 5 ISOs for the latest version of Mandrake, e-mail is just a drop in the bucket. Besides, spam e-mails are generally small. I have 13 in my filtered area now, the largest is 12 KB. People regularly send me 1MB files in the mail.
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Bandwidth Posted May 6, 2004 16:10 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link] If you think only about yourself then it is small. Here at a place with 12000 email accounts it actually goes over the amount that video etc are using according to our plots and graphs. I think that may be due to the fact that we can cache/proxy the video/web much better than 12000 slightly different emails to 12000 accounts
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