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To: TChris

Please.....P2P isn’t half the problem that rampant spammers are.


5 posted on 03/24/2008 8:10:45 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Please.....P2P isn’t half the problem that rampant spammers are.

I haven't read anything that analyzes the bandwidth impact of spam. I wouldn't think that it's all that bad, overall.

All email combined isn't a large percentage of the Internet's traffic. So even if spam is 80% (wild-guess percentage) of all email traffic, it still wouldn't have a huge impact.

P2P is a major bandwidth hog, and it's a long-term one, with hours and days devoted to huge media transfers. EMail is delivered in relatively short bursts.

10 posted on 03/24/2008 8:27:44 AM PDT by TChris ("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
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