On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote:
> If we start putting the squeeze on the image hosts, do you think that
> spammers will then just start to embed the images within their email?
> Certainly the bandwidth requirements become more costly then, but it doesn't
> seem like that would be a hard thing to do. Anyone know why spammers don't
> seem to do this much as it is?

For the spammer, the increase in bandwidth would cut down on the number of
mails they could send out in a given time frame before detection/shutdown. 
Also, a whole bunch of big messages would be more noticable, and perhaps
even filterable.....

- Charles



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