On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:29:25 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote:
[...] > Yet you don't use your gmail address to post here - so how is this a > fair apples to apples comparison. It isn't. All you saying is - an > email address at gmail that I hardly use, doesn't get a lot of spam - > and an email address at roaringpenguin.com which I use all the time - > gets more spam. I use my gmail.com address a lot. Just not for work-related topics. [...] > > Because I don't trust Google with anything important. I would > > rather put in the effort to run my own mail server than let Google > > have all my mail. > The average user doesn't think like that I am afraid. Yes, I know. I've given up trying to service the average user. [...] > > I spend my time and energy with people who understand the > > issues, rather than trying to get dumb and/or closed-minded people > > to the point where they understand. It's a simple business > > decision. > And the problem is that those understanding people represent .00001% > of the customers out there. I think that is overly pessimistic. I would put it at around 1%. My ten-person company can easily survive on 0.01% of Google's annual revenue (that works out to around $5.5 million/year... I can dream...), so if we can capture 1% of the 1%, we're happy. We're not getting disgustingly rich... but we're happy. Regards, David.
