On Monday 22 September 2003 10:54, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:09, Olav Lavell wrote: > > Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 > > > > mail accounts. > > > > > > What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting > > > to offer spam & virus filtering. > > > > Yeah, but for a fee... > > > > Which can be totally justifiable from an ISP point of view, since after > > all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come > > Bull. By using spam/virus filtering on their end, they are saving > on bandwidth between the ISP and the end-user. > > Thus, even if they can't/don't use SpamAssassin & Amavisd, and must > spend money on filtering s/w, it still saves them money by not having > to upgrade the downstream h/w.
I don't think that many isp's are concerned about the <user>-><isp> connection, who needs to pay extra for that ? It's the <internet>-><isp> connection that eats all the money. The isp will simply apply a quota, if I use over 10 gig in the past thirty days my calbe modem gets capped to a 15kb/s downstream limit. -- http://www.de-brauwer.be -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
