At 03:58 PM 2/12/2003 -0700, LuKreme wrote:
True, but if people are clicking and buying, they WANT to. So, now you have one of two issues:On Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003, at 19:07 Canada/Mountain, Ed Benckert wrote:Seems like the work put in to dynamically add 'bad sites' based on spam to a web filter is a waste of time. The problem is spam, not people clicking on links in spam.Actually, I couldn't possibly disagree more. The problem is NOT spam, the problem is people clicking on spam.
Spammers wouldn't spam if IT DIDN'T WORK. These people are trying to make money, and they do. They send out 100,000,000 spams and they get 100 sales. that's insignificant, but if the sale is $30 that's $3000 dollars.
If no one, ever, bought anything that was advertised in spam then there would be no incentive to spam. If there's no money to be made, then the problem goes away.
You show a warning page, which annoys your customer (you being the ISP installing this DNS blocking/warning service). It doesnt fix the 'problem'. People are still buying.
Or
You block access. This will seriously piss off your customer, and if it happens often enough, you will lose your customer to an ISP that will not block websites.
So, that makes the software useless and a failure, because no ISP will alienate its customers for the sake of reducing spam for everyone. "Hmm, if I lose money from my own pocket by losing customers, I can help the spam problem." Yeah. That'll work.
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