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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, George Gallen wrote: > I wouldn't say there isn't any payment involved... > The cost of a business internet connection (one that can sustain a > upload for 2M emails) > is quite a monthly fee, far more of an expense than a monthly cable > bill. so, no, it > really isn't free for the sender (at least in the US). You are making it sound like 2 million emails would chew up an expensive chunk of bandwidth. I just took a peek in my spam folder and it looks to me like most of the spam email I get is under 4k. 4k * 2 million = 7.6 gig I am paying 15 dollars a month for my internet server and that includes 50 gig per month at much better than T1 speeds. I could easily fit a few of these jobs per month into my bandwidth quota... That makes each individual email so cheap it may as well be free. :) > To me true spam, has no valid return address, and no useful purpose. > Here I'm assuming these emails will have real return addresses, and be > of some purpose (to someone). Those I classify as junk mail, not spam > mail. Merriam-Webster tells me that spam in unsolicited, usually commercial, email. If you didn't request that junk mail that would make it unsolicited :). Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug