In the contract the spammer aggrees to send at least 1 million emails a day and no more than 3 million with out prior permission
There is no rational reason to write the contract this way. The spammer customer should only be interested in and pay for responses, and the spammer should be interested in generating those responses in the most efficient way. I have pointed out to Mr. Hamilton ... that I will never buy anything You need to talk to Hamilton's customers who sign this stupid contract. Let me suggest making the dichotomy clearer for them. I have started contacting every product/service supplier advertised in the spam I get to one of my addresses. I click on links and browse for a 1-800 number or email address. Then I send them an email form letter and/or call and read the message to their voice-mail or whatever poor human answers. Here is the form letter I use: -- I received your contact information in a spam. I will never purchase any item advertised in spam. I do everything I can to get spammers to remove me from their lists. The reason they do not remove me is because they can charge you for sending me email even though they know I will never generate a sale. They are cheating you. I believe it is in both our self-interests to dump the outdated snail-mail pricing model for spam. I believe it serves us better to promote a pricing model in which you pay only for actual leads generated, analogous to the "click-through" model for web page banner advertising. Such a model is technically easy to implement. If you agree please inform whatever spam services you use. More immediately, you might ask them not to send any of your emails to the ideogram.com domain since I will only waste your money and your time. -- This does take time but then so does legal action and I feel this is more beneficial. I am now receiving spam advertising mainstream products like Gillette razors and a bank in South Dakota. These are not porn sites or con games or illegal wares (of course those still exist). These people have real world reputations to protect. If many people each send one anti-spam message to a customer support line or sales email address they will learn that sending us spam wastes their time as well as ours. The beauty of this scheme is that the spammer customers cannot simply hide as the spammers do; they must provide am easy contact method to generate business. One target (1-800-STONEAGE) was so concerned that they were willing to waste even more of their time calling me back to explain their position and ask me for more details. There are still the aformentioned shady dealers who often require you to enter a valid credit card before showing you anything at all, but that cannot be helped. This is basically what they are doing they are paying the spammer per sale. No, they have a ridiculous clause that is counter-productive. We need to demonstrate for them how counter-productive it is. I must emphasize that we cannot alienate the spammer customers by being rude or confrontational. We need to convince them that the spammers themselves are exploiting us both and therefore our common enemy. Adam _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail I hope you do not use MSN for anything serious. I have my MSN address set to reject everything (allow only whitelisted with an empty whitelist) and Microsoft's own spam still comes through, apparently because it is written directly to the mail file. I am considering suing them to force them to either stop doing this or terminate my account (as a publicity stunt). _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
