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botnets are not free. It takes time to develop and maintain. But it does make the cost of email using them very, very low.
by kevincox 5y ago
botnets are not free. It takes time to develop and maintain. But it does make the cost of email using them very, very low.
- beaconstudios 5y agosending a mailshot through a botnet has zero marginal cost. Maintaining the botnet has overhead, but that's not a cost of sending the email, it's an overhead.
- kevincox 5y agoI doubt this. Because even bot nodes will get blocked eventually so each email is degrading that value of that node. Again, very, very low, but not exactly zero.