From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e5c972d04da95d51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-17 15:01:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: If anybody wants to make something in Ada but do not know what X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:02:10 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.88.61.154 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 1050616918 219.88.61.154 (Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:01:58 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:01:58 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36255 Date: 2003-04-18T10:02:10+12:00 List-Id: "Wesley Groleau" wrote in message news:tWWdneoWEM40RgOjXTWcqg@gbronline.com... > > Hold on a second. Not to mention that you are putting > > a potentially huge strain on the ISP provider (a dedicated > > Disk space or bandwidth--which is the greater strain? > > > DB per user) I don't think the question above is related: ISP has already spent both disk space and bandwidth to download some spam on their servers. Presumably you didn't pay for that except via your normal subscription fees. Now, assuming you pay for download (per Mb or whatever) the ISP should be more than happy to send all that junk to you and recover the costs. Even if not, the costs are already incurred and will be passed on to you (as a customer) one way or another. But now you want that ISP to allocate some more disk space (and bandwidth, and associated software and maintenance) to make sure they can't. Yeah, right :)