I don't see how bandwidth would increase, since the spam servers are sending you mail whether they are blacklisted or not. Blacklisting an IP doesn't magically make it stop sending bytes to your computer via the internet. I don't really see how it would cause any additional server space either. Almost any place that handles any large amount of email already has some sort of spam-handling software, it would be trivial to add spamd into the mix (if it's not already there). Worst comes to worst, you buy a really cheap 1U server, as any 1U server you can buy now-a-days has way more CPU power than you'd need for OpenBSD's spamd. Abuse complaints...again not sure how this would increase, as the spam volume would not increase much at all. On the contrary, I think it would decrease customer service related costs, because now you don't have people who call up saying how they can't send mail to your mail servers, or customers calling up saying they can't recieve mail from certain places. No (or not major) cost increase.
Jason On 6/29/05, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to the how would it increase cost question, anytime a > provider has to deal with more spam it costs more money, additional > manpower to process abuse complaints, additional bandwidth, server space > etc. > > Brian
