I've been trying to tell some people that for a while now...
Spam is 'earth friendly' LOL!
Wired & these other newsrags always report on how costly 'email spam' is, and never have I heard how much tax revenue or extra business sales it generates.... We get reports on how consumers are buying more and more shit online and how NIFTY that is, but never what % of those sales come from email ads...
I'm guessing that the % of sales from email is pretty damned high.
Now it's funny to watch how a lot of the states want to JUMP in on that tax revenue with their broke asses, yet at the same time cut their own throat in passing anti-spam laws LOL....
Enforcing opt-out, working contact to be removed, etc is fine, but wanting to 'rid' the world of spam is lame imo...from a financial perspective, although I'm not a financial analyst it doesn't make sense to me from the surface view.
They talk about how much money spam 'costs' the industry, isn't that called supply/demand though? Aren't big ISPs growing as a result of it? Ordering more pipe from someone, someone selling that pipe is happy to provide it I'm sure. If they need to just charge spammer accounts more b/w charges to offset their costs, etc I'm sure they'd be more than happy to oblige, the ones that are in the biz for real anyways...
PS: when I'm talking about spam btw, I'm referring to bought/traded opt-in lists, not randomly harvested stuff...
opt-in good, harvested bad
ok, I hope some of that made sense, i havent' had my coffee yet...