spam control again

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Tue Jul 15 16:17:39 EDT 2003


On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:29:10 -0500
"John Whitfield" <john_whitfield at email.com> wrote:

> Perhaps a better response would be to attack the business side of the
> problem.  Most spam is predicated on the idea that you can turn a
> profit even if only one person responds because the marginal cost of
> each email is near zero.  Spammers already complain (and we feel *SO*
> sorry for them) that their costs have been driven up by anti-spam
> efforts such as filters.
Unfortunately, a great deal of SPAM is pure junk, not even of any
commercial value. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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