Re: Worsening google service reputation and abuse

[John Levine via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

It appears that Michael Thomas via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> said:
> Since this is a network operator list, here's my question. What 
> percentage of traffic is spam? That is, total traffic? My guess is that 
> it's minuscule. That and how negatively does it cut into bottom line for 
> an operator like an ISP? I hardly see ISP based email anymore these days.

In terms of percentage of total bits, I'm sure you're right.  Mail is
a sliver of bandwidth, spam is between half and 90% of that.

The problems are on the one hand, having a mailbox full of spam makes
mail less useful (I am so tired of my morning B2B blasts from Outlook
and Gmail), but on the other a lot of is linked to real crime with
significant financial consequences to the victims.

I agree that the incentives are skewed, with little incentive for
ISPs to deal with it.  I note that Comcast who used to run a large
mail system recently handed it all over to Yahoo, presumably because
Yahoo has economies of scale they don't.

R's,
John
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