On Monday 22 September 2003 10:09, 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 > gratis either. But that does not make it any more satifactory from the > consumer point of view. Customers need to pay more again, only because > of the sh*t that Microsoft has thrown upon them. > But on the other hand there is also a larger cost for the isp since the traffic they use increases. More cpu power is needed to do the filtering ... and who pays for that ?
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