ddaPremium
join:2003-12-29
Bolton, MA | reply to fancydancer
Re: Gates needs to purchase stock options in a clue. That's not true. The problem with spam is that the cost to advertise is 0. Nada. Zilch. Therefore, if even one person buys, you've made a profit. MS is trying to raise the cost, in their own short-sighted, biased and self-centric way (I'm sure Intel wants more cycles burned too).
The long term solution to spam involved raising the cost to advertise; then there is no return to blast out zillions of emails to everyone and their cat. This is why companies pay more for "targeted" lists (snail mail and otherwise). |
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 fancydancerPerception is realityPremium
join:2002-08-28
Springfield, IL | That's a great idea to make it more expensive for the spammers to advertise but how possible is it? We are dealing with a major design flaw when it comes to the Internet. It simply was not meant for all this regulation and control. Believe me, I would love to see it happen. Unfortunately it will probably get to the point where you need to deposit money to send an email or present a credit card to use a computer. It just goes to show you that a few bad apples (spammers) spoil it for the rest of us.
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join:2001-09-27
Dayton, OH | reply to dda
said by dda:
The long term solution to spam involved raising the cost to advertise; then there is no return to blast out zillions of emails to everyone and their cat. more for "targeted" lists (snail mail and otherwise).
Perhaps email providers give customers 20 free outbound emails a day, and after that, additional customer emails are forwarded to the Internet after a successful micropayment has been made.
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