On 7/29/2014 1:39 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
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.
[...]
If I was working on a Masters or a doctorate, a good thesis topic
I think would be to register equal addresses on all major providers as
well as run your own domain, then start using them identically - on
public blogs, websites, etc. - as address harvesting bait. Just to see
how well these big guys are really doing.
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.
There are those who would define disgustingly rich as a requirement for
happiness...
Ted
Regards,
David.
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