RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] The eminent victory of spam

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Huggard, Arthur Charles (UMC-Student) wrote:

> In addition to just hearing it on NPR News, here's the site that's 
> "partnering" with AOL and Yahoo.
>
> http://www.goodmailsystems.com/
> http://www.goodmailsystems.com/certifiedmail/
>
> They claim that the companies they sell their imprinter device to go 
> through a rigorous application process to guarantee they're legitimate 
> organizations. But they stop short of saying what that process is.


I think the important thing is not that they are "legitimate" in some 
sense, but that they are *paying*.  When it costs money to send a message, 
they won't send it unless they think there is some chance it will be of 
interest to the recipient.  With free email, a company might decide to 
send 1,000,000 messages because they think they might get 5 replies, but 
if it cost them $0.001 to send each message, they'd be paying $200 per 
reply which might not be worth it.

My guess is that "legitimate organization" means the same thing as "paying 
customer."

Mike

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