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Re: Need your website? [message #171501 is a reply to message #171487]

Thu, 06 January 2011 20:10

Twayne
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>
> 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.
>
>
> F'up2 poster
>
> PointedEars

I can't say I 100% agree with you, but we're close enough that you've added
a good post here.

HTH,

Twayne`

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		Re: Need your website? By: Twayne on Thu, 06 January 2011 19:52

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