On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 13.03.2011 12:38, schrieb Steve:
I really don't understand why people keep telling that spam is a problem?
because there are peopole out their whose time costs money?
This prt of the problem I suspect is marginal. It's not the cost, it's
who's making the money.
Consider that part of my background involves being the mailroom guy in an
outfit that routinely sent out bulk snail mail here in the US. As annoying
as "junk mail" is, it's documentably easier to target than email and
somebody is actually putting time, money, and effort into this stuff - you
have to buy the advertisement materials and the address list, somebody is
getting paid to collate and prepare everything, and somebody is hauling it
down to the post office - who takes their payment in the form of postage.
Busted my ass for that, I did, and it was decent money - when the company
owner was not there to tell me how to do my job. =)
A spammer? It's just a list of email addresses. Push a button and sure,
the spam is targeted - to a bunch of email addresses. Doesn't work so hot
- my girlfriend gets ads for Viagra and penis enlargement, and I get ads
for having my "organ" enlarged. Why would I want an enlarged heart or
liver ? Meanwhile, for ten minutes of work max, these assholes need only
press a button and go get a cup of coffee, and they just made a mint.
So the problem is not with SMTP, it's with the spammers. Only thing we
can do is block them. I really, REALLY wish there was more we could do
so we can stop them - but the only thing we can do to stop them is to
make it cost more than it's worth, and the only way I can admittedly come
up with would be pretty unethical. .
-Dennis
