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