[SA-exim] teergrubing

[jvanasco at mastersofbranding.com]

That is an excellent point.

On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 04:27 AM, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:47, jvanasco at mastersofbranding.com wrote:
>> The idea isn't to DOS -- the idea, is to have a clickthrough for =
every
>> recipient.
>
> This is an interesting idea, but I think you have the economics wrong=20=

> in
> that you assume that the spammer runs the website and the spammer's =
aim
> is to get final sales.
>
>> Mr.Spammer sends out 5,000,000 emails.  5,000,000 x 1k isn't much
>> bandwidth.  He only needs 5 people to buy his wares to turn a profit=20=

>> on
>> the mailing =E2=80=93 and he doesn't expect more than 200 people or =
so to=20
>> click
>> through to his website.
>
> There were a couple of articles around a week or so back regarding
> financial spamming.  Spammers were paid on click through rates so...
>
> If you have *every* single victim click through then the spammer gets
> lots and lots of money.  This might not seem like a good result, but=20=

> the
> people *buying* the spamming services are paying out lots more money=20=

> for
> no return.  You have just broken the economic model - they have to fix
> it.  An ideal next phase would be to feed them duff additional
> information - ideally give them all each others phone numbers :-)
>
> 	Nigel.
>
> --=20
> [ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.co.uk ]
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