[Gllug] Paying to send email..

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Mon, 6 February, 2006 12:17 pm, David Damerell wrote:
>
> Who would be most likely to want their messages not sent through spam
> filters? People who aren't sending spam have a small worry about false
> positives. People who _are_ sending spam have a large worry about
> non-false positives. Who can most afford to pay to send email? People
> who expect to make money off the email.
>

This is all true, though I suspect that the big spammers won't bite - they
send out millions of their emails because the marginal cost is all but
zero. If the marginal cost is even 0.25c then it becomes less sensible -
particularly given the dismal quality of most spams anyway.

$25 on an outlay of nothing is good value, $25 on an outlay of $250 is
obviouly not going to happen.

So expect the Banks and so on to use it to send out the equivalent of junk
email - the viagra spammers won't bother.

Still not acceptible behaviour though.

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