On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > How is that more valuable? The precise calculation should be something > like this: > a - The chances that an unconfirmed email reaches a real person. > b - The chances that a random real person will actually buy stuff. > c - The chances that someone who asked to be removed will buy stuff. > > In general, for it to be profitable to not honor removal requests, c > must be greater than a*b. I suggest that this is not the case. > a is somewhere in the 80%. > b is somewhere in the 0.5% (according to my rather dim recollection of > spam news. I'm not really sure about this one). > Are you truely suggesting that someone who sent an email saying "don't > ever ever spam me again" is more than 0.4% likely to buy something > advertised in a future email (meaning - buying a product for every 250 > spams received)?
If I was to buy a product for every 250 spams received, I would probably buy 250 products a year! behdad > Shachar > P.S. > If anyone has better numbers, please let us know. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
