[51895] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon Sep 9 19:52:01 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:48:57 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <web-1433625@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> > Ok, suppose someone can touch type. The world record is something like 600
> > key presses per minute, which is 10 41-byte TCP packets per second ~= 4
> > kbps.
> When I go to Internet cafe's (I like Global Gossip), I connect my Ti-book
> to the local ethernet if at all possible (that's why I like Global Gossip) and
> use high bit rates (i.e., file transfers) in both direction.
Would the uploads be HTTP? That's the only thing I'd want to limit to a
few kbps. (Well, and outgoing SMTP to 0 kbps.)
> If I was limited to 4 kbps outbound, I would want my money back.
> Just one customer viewpoint :)
Understandable. On the other hand, spammers using internet cafes isn't
good either.
