Stay at home mom admits to be spammer

RawAlex · 2006-03-14, 11:15 AM

Jim, the thing with paper spam is the cost per piece - the majority of the cost for paper spam is bourne by the sender. Each piece of paper in your box represents anywhere from 10 cents to about $1 per piece AT THE COST OF THE SENDER.

Email spam is almost entirely at the cost of the receiver: Computer, internet connection, time... plus so many spammers spend their lives trying to trick you into opening their spam by using misleading subject lines, faked from addresses, and whatnot. Through strong filtering and whatnot, I have my spam per day down into the hundreds now.

If spammers were paying ever 1 cent per email to send them, most of them would not be doing it - let alone 10 cents or more per piece.

You should get after you government to do what they have done in Canada. If you put a "NO AD MAIL" notice on your mailbox, the post office will not deliver anything that isn't personally addressed. That mean that yes you will still get the credit card offers and stuff, but no, you won't get the rest of the loose junk. I can put the same symbol on my front door area, and in theory the door to door people won't drop stuff here either.

Oh yeah, spam faxes are against the law in the US last time I looked.

Alex

2006-03-14, 11:15 AM	#7
RawAlex Took the hint. Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,597	Jim, the thing with paper spam is the cost per piece - the majority of the cost for paper spam is bourne by the sender. Each piece of paper in your box represents anywhere from 10 cents to about $1 per piece AT THE COST OF THE SENDER. Email spam is almost entirely at the cost of the receiver: Computer, internet connection, time... plus so many spammers spend their lives trying to trick you into opening their spam by using misleading subject lines, faked from addresses, and whatnot. Through strong filtering and whatnot, I have my spam per day down into the hundreds now. If spammers were paying ever 1 cent per email to send them, most of them would not be doing it - let alone 10 cents or more per piece. You should get after you government to do what they have done in Canada. If you put a "NO AD MAIL" notice on your mailbox, the post office will not deliver anything that isn't personally addressed. That mean that yes you will still get the credit card offers and stuff, but no, you won't get the rest of the loose junk. I can put the same symbol on my front door area, and in theory the door to door people won't drop stuff here either. Oh yeah, spam faxes are against the law in the US last time I looked. Alex