> > > I think that having all bounces (for whatever reason) archived is > > > fine; I think having it as "web pages somewhere" is overkill. > > > > both the volume of spam, and the ratio of spam to legitimate content are > > so high, that I'm not sure how much longer it will be practical to > > archive it. if we were to archive rejected messages, it should probably > > only be for a few weeks. > > My rolling 40 day log of all spam sent to my traps or real addresses > contains about 34,484 samples in a total of about 242 Mbytes or an > average of about 7 KBytes/spam. (Each sample is truncated to ~32 KBytes.) > > Judging from DCC numbers from a bunch of medium sized ISPs, the typical > consumer mailbox receives about 10 messages/day (more than 5, less > than 20), of which about half are spam. (Never mind that judicious > "unsubscribing" can reduce that by about 50%.) well, some of the IETF lists that I maintain seem to get around 50 spams/day (at least, if I go away for a day before I cull through the posts from nonsubscribers, I am likely to wind up with 60+ messages on some of those lists, of which 59.5 are spam) but it's not the cost of the disk that matters, it's the cost of backing it up. I can think of better things to spend IETF money on.