Well,
what you are describing sounds great. if a business will get 0.5 - 1 % of
the clients he sent SPAM than he will be very happy.
The small precentage doesn't mean small money. No one sells gum by
email ads, more likely computers, vacations, dating services, etc..
5000 customers * min(100nis) = 50000 nis a month.
So it should be clear why they continue to SPAM.
anyhow, i find that the best technique to avoid getting sent SPAM is:
1) bounce SPAM by using mailwasher and similar software.
this should increase the anoiance level of the SPAM providers that
uses filtered SMTPs, and thus have the return address written.
It could also close their account by the ISP who get this bounces.
2) don't use hotmail, yahoo etc... mail services since they are high
profile. if for example, when i used lycos.co.uk i almost got no spam at
all.
3) adding a line warnning SPAMMERS, for manual additions. see below.
regards,
tzahi.
WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Linux-IL mailing list
> Subject: Re: [OT]nesws regarding vigros chicks
>
>
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>
> >Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Then again, maybe not. For example - I'm confounded if I can understand
> >>why spammers will vigorously spam people who ask to be removed.
> >>Presumably, if someone asks to be removed, he is highly unlikely to ever
> >>buy something from you. Spamming him again will only cost you the
> >>(insignificant, but still) money, with almost no hope of seeing any
> >>back. I'm not sure what this means about the above logic.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >If you ignorethem, your email address is "unconfirmed". If you reply to
> >remove yourself from the list, you are confirming your email address
> >exists and gets to a real person, which makes it much more valuable.
> >
> >Geoff.
> >
> >
> 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)?
>
> Shachar
> P.S.
> If anyone has better numbers, please let us know.
>
> --
> Shachar Shemesh
> Lingnu Open Systems Consulting
> http://www.lingnu.com/
>
>
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