Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:13:00 +0200
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Anyone who spams from his own machine (as opposed to posting to lists
hosted on other people's machines) is going to incur either a tremendous
cost for delivering the spam before it can be stopped, or a
non-negligible cost for delivering the spam in a longer time frame. A
$50k unix system with 256M and a bunch of disks will do 300-400k/day. So
if they have 3M addresses their hypothetical $50k machine is going to be
busy for about a week. Plenty of time to shut it off. Besides, as I found
out the hard way, it takes 60 days to get any kind of serious bandwidth
delivered to your doorstep. So every time they spam and their provider
pulls the plug, they're out of business for two months. And with setup
charges in the $3-5k nonrefundable, I'm not really sure one could
actually make money this way. In other words, unlike the SpamKing
approach, this isn't a working spamming method.
Anyway, if I understood correctly they're charging people for *web*
"impressions", ie every time someone clicks on the Internet scanner GIF,
they make $0.03 (or whatever the rate might be). I don't see anything
wrong with that, although I'm quite confident that it will never work
out. Every week some new company writes to [log in to unmask] to explain
how they have looked at the web and seen that there was a lot of info but
only 19,999 companies trying to organize that info, so they have decided
to become #20,000 and if we would only spend 15 min filling out their
form they will add us to their database where millions of web users who
have no idea that they even exist but could putatively be imparted this
information by divine nocturnal visit will be able to find us. They all
act like they are going to become THE ultimate source for finding things
on the web. I have yet to see one succeed :-)
Eric
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