From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040228144033.1227.qmail@mail.dirac.net>, <2e53d0b955987afff06292756dc7e4c9@collyer.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] spam (was "pathetic") Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:35:54 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 06a4cdac-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Geoff Collyer wrote: > One reason you get so much paper spam (junk mail) is that the post > office (at least in the US and I believe Canada) *subsidises* the > spammers: they get lower postal rates for bulk spamming. But by presorting they lower processing cost. Last time I heard a Postmaster explain this, he said that actually the bulk-rate mail paid its way while first-class did not. That was before several increases in first-class postal rates, however, so perhaps now they both do.