a bit of lovely news about spam in California

Sat Jan 5 09:01:49 PST 2002

>Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 07:59:41 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Michael J. Miller Jr." <mke at turbolift.com>

>One possible solution that occurs to me is to start a second email 
>infrastructure that would eventually replace the first....

>All very expensive of course.  The question is, would this be more expensive
>then the current and future cost of SPAM?  If the answer is yes, then we 
>should all just get used to SPAM and the never ending escalation between 
>spammers and those who try stop/slow them down.  If it isn't more expensive, 
>than what are people waiting for?  :-)

As you know, there are both "one-time" and "ongoing" expenses to most
expenditures, and this is a case where the one-time expenses are
considerable.  (The ongoing ones could be significant, as well, of
course.)

It is not clear to me that this is the only way to go.  :-}

Cheers,
david
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