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Re: Need your website? [message #171487 is a reply to message #171485] Wed, 05 January 2011 19:52 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Thomas 'PointedEars' is currently offline  Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Norman Peelman wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> - while calling it for what it is has a tendency to discourage SPAM -
>>> at least for those who read before posting, anyway.
>>
>> Methinks you definitely have this all backwards. Ignore the spam, they
>> will be discouraged and maybe stop. Reply to it, and they *know* you
>> read it, and will send you more. Especially if you give them web site
>> hits.
>
> This isn't about ignoring an offensive person that will eventually go
> away when ignored. SPAMMERS are after money. They don't care whether or
> not you ignore them.

Your logic is flawed. Because spammers are after money they do care a lot
about any feedback. For there is, eventually, no profit in sending messages
that nobody reads, however small the cost to do that (and the overall cost
to send spam is very small when compared to the receivers' costs: a 2001 CE
estimate was $0.00001 per message for the spammer against $0.10 per message
and receiver). Spam still exists at such a large percentage on the Net (the
2010 Internet backbone figure is that 97% of all Internet messages are spam)
because people are making profit from sending it, from others employing them
to do so. Feedback tells the spammer that the message is being read, and it
tells their (potential) customers that it still makes sense to relay their
message through the spammer and the spam. (That is why sophisticated
Bayesian spam filtering, when done everywhere, could easily mean the end of
electronic spam as we know it: in the end, spammers have to deliver their
message. As you can imagine, I have done a little bit of research on that
topic.)

Of course, ignoring spam should not be the end of it; you also need to tell
the service provider that people are abusing their service for spamming;
however unfortunately, many service providers appear to have given up
fighting spam and very often sending formal complaints to them is no longer
of use. This, too, is driven by money; it is often too expensive for them,
and cheaper to filter out spam or simply ignore complaints. Especially,
canceled accounts are too easily worked around by spammers through re-
registration. But if you do not try to fight spam, I daresay that you are
getting the Net that you deserve.

HTH.


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PointedEars
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Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are
positively harmful for cross-browser scripting.
-- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7(at)news(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> (2004)

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