As a host of dedicate servers, I receive inquiries from spammers from
time to time to see if they can park their stuff in my racks, on my
network. Of course the answer is no. They all have their
justifications for what they are doing. But, I had an interesting
chat with a fellow the other day who sends mail to people in a
particular industry, who did not opt in. The list is "targeted" to
people in his industry. The product he is selling is sending spam on
the prospect's behalf to the same list !
He said that when he sends 1,000,000 messages, he gets about a dozen
complaints to his ISP and black lists, but hundreds of orders ! Now,
I have to admit, that his product and list are pretty good. He does
remove those who request, and the list is targeted, and the industry
he's is the kind that would make use of his product. Most spam
couldn't possibly be as profitable or effective as this one.
I told him I would not host him, but it was good conversation. I
appreciated his honesty and that he was doing what he could to be a
good guy... even though he depended on his non-opt-in lists. But, I
will not host him.
At 06:50 PM 8/9/2006, you wrote:
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 01:28:38AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I hate spam. It makes me wonder why spammers even bother; I mean,
it can't *possibly* be *that* effective, right?
Send out 50,000,000 spams using stolen bandwidth, and if just one sucker
bites, it's pure profit. That's for crap like the herbal viagra.
Something "legitimate", like mortgages or sports betting, and you get a
lot more responses.
Spamming is profitable, because there are an awful lot of stupid people
out there.
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