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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, [email protected] 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
> 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
>> on
>> the mailing – and he doesn't expect more than 200 people or so to
>> 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
> the
> people *buying* the spamming services are paying out lots more money
> 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.
>
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