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Originally posted by charly
Who ever thought stopping spam could be done for free is living in a dream world. But not stopping it is costing us all a lot more than a cent an email.
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I guess the OpenSource & FreeWare communities have it all wrong then. Alot of really good, high quality solutions for things are created, improved on, and supported by the opensource communities - Including your own server OS, HTTPd & mail daemons.. among other things I'm sure.
You can get commercial versions of things that offer alternative features or functions, but to say that you're living in a dreamworld if you think spam can be resolved for "free" isn't a very intelligent statement... especially when you consider all the things that have been done for "free" on the internet.
Hell,
this thread alone basically tells you how you can resolve your personal spam issues for free.
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Originally posted by charly
OK if you are a large company and you have a large site you get a bigger allowance. But think about it if a company does not make $1 for a every hundred they send out, they should examine their business model.
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Maybe that company is a non-profit organization?
Or a mailing list for a OS distribution like Linux, FreeBSD (Competitors of M$)... or Apache webserver... The Opensource community relies a lot on high volume mailing lists between its contributors. They make minimal amounts of money, much less than $1 for every hundred they send out.
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Originally posted by charly
If it's a purely informative email then maybe there could be allowances for education. But if you are a business like Adult.com you are sending out emails to make money, not educate people.
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Why should Adult.com have to pay money to M$ and/or the government send out it's daily newsletter? That newsletter has extreme value for the people who get and read it -- they give away ~$150-$200 in daily prizes in that newsletter.
So you think they should have to spend an additional $100/day to shoot it out? Maybe they would have to remove their daily prizes then -- and that would mean that this wonderful spam solution just decreased the value of the service and community that is GFY.
Lensman already pays to be able to deliver high volumes of mail -- he pays his host for bandwidth & the recipients pay their hosts for internet access and/or bandwidth.
It's already been paid for see?
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Originally posted by charly
And do not forget I said it should be optional, if you choose to go the old route of free emails then fine and you can choose if you want to recieve them as well.
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Oh most definitely... it SHOULD be optional.
But like I said, M$ controls so much of the worlds computers, they would probably try to enable their method of email scrubbing by default... either actually having it enabled, or using a biased one-side view of why they should enable it.
And once that happens, everyone else just has to fall in line...
like it or not.
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Originally posted by charly
But the biggest problem to my idea is the dream that the Internet is free. It never was and never will be. Somebody somewhere has to pay for it and that is the consumer.
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You need to do more research into the history of the internet and the services it replaced.
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Originally posted by charly
Think about all the people who are scared to join a site because they fear getting spammed by porn sites, think about all the people who wil think Bush is right to fight porn becasue they get it in their email box?
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Definitely valid points. But just like the Diebold election boxes - there are other viable options that aren't being considered for the mainstream because they can't be controlled and taxed.
Anyway, I think if someone wants to join a porn site, they'll join
Most people I know have throwaway email addresses they use for this puprose.
There are also free services like
http://www.spam.la
(just use
[email protected] for a throw away email)