| From: | Alastair M. Robinson |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2000 at 19:21:49 |
| Subject: | Re: egroups adverts - some rough maths! |
Hi everyone,
After reading the comments about the egroups adverts, and the possibility of
buying our way out of them, I did a few rough calculations (using probably
highly spurious parameters - but just for argument's sake):
We have over 400 members, right?
Assuming the adverts are an average of 4 lines x 60 characters, and that we
have an average of 50 mails a day:
4 x 60 = 240, 240 * 50 = 12000, 12000 * 400 = 4,800,000
*Bloody hell* - that's 4.8 meg of adverts clogging up the networks every day
*from just this one mailing list!*
If most people collect the mails in the evening, paying 1.5 per minute, with
an average connection speed of about 3k a second, that's 1600 seconds, 26.6
minutes, and 40 pence going into BT's coffers every day because of the
adverts on this one mailing list.
*Jeez!* That's 146 pounds per year. No wonder BT have been resisting
broadband deployment and unmetered access!
OK - so some people are in digest mode, some are overseas, some don't pay
for net calls, and some get their mail at work/uni on fast lines - but it's
still a frightening cost to the list collectively from these innocuous
looking 4-line adverts.
All the best,
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