From: "Marc Perkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mouss wrote:
Rick Measham wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
... I do front end spam filtering for about 500 domains.
> ... I'm wondering if I
make enough money suing spammers I could give my services away for
free just to get the spam to sue for.
Someone tell me if I'm nuts?
To be completely cynical, you're nuts.
If you're in the spam-fighting business then the last thing you want
to do is actually stop spammers from trying. Once the spammers stop,
you're out of business :)
This is silly, because it ignores time. he is not trying to get an
eternal business. he wants a business _now_. and spam isn't to stop
tomorrow. if he can get few of them, then I'll congratulate him. even
if few is too few.
That said, I can only say him "good luck". if he has ideas that can
apply in .fr, then I'd be happy to hear about.
Here's what I have in mind. I'm hooking up with a lawyer who specializes
in this sort of thing. I provide him the evidence and the companies to
go after and he sues them and we split the take 50/50. If it's
profitable, and it looks like it might be more profitable that what I'm
charging my customers, then I can make money off the lawsuits and give
the spam filtering service away for free.
Marc, I am cynical enough and distrust lawyers, who have to receive
an ethics-ectomy to pass the bar, enough that I am strongly inclined
to suspect this is a lawyerly based advanced fee scam. If he asks you
for ANYTHING up front, even a peanut whistle, set him up with the FBI.
(Approach the FBI about the suspected scam and help them nail the
sucker if he really is preying on anti-spam folks.)
{^_^}
