Comments on: The cure for spam - forever http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/the-cure-for-spam-forever Musings about technology from a Geek Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Mitch Wright http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/the-cure-for-spam-forever#comment-4286 Mitch Wright Tue, 12 May 2009 22:51:22 +0000 http://www.techyouruniverse.com/technology/the-cure-for-spam-forever#comment-4286 That's been said for years, but sadly that <1% still continue. I have another idea for breaking the equation. See, while the mail delivery might be relatively cheap, the ability to handle the inbound service isn't. If a large enough group actually clicked through without buying anything, the cost to host/maintain their store will shoot up and snatch the profit they'd have made from the 1% clickers. The bandwidth overage will cost them. If their servers can't handle the load, they'll lose part of that 1% that can't reach them. That profit will erode pretty quickly if enough people would just "click 'em to the curb". :) That’s been said for years, but sadly that <1% still continue. I have another idea for breaking the equation. See, while the mail delivery might be relatively cheap, the ability to handle the inbound service isn’t. If a large enough group actually clicked through without buying anything, the cost to host/maintain their store will shoot up and snatch the profit they’d have made from the 1% clickers.

The bandwidth overage will cost them. If their servers can’t handle the load, they’ll lose part of that 1% that can’t reach them. That profit will erode pretty quickly if enough people would just "click ‘em to the curb". :)

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