Re: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:21:56 GMT, Drsolly said:
>
> > Suppose an ISP has a million paid subscribers, and 100,000 of those give
> > an AOL address as their primary address. Now, suppose that ISP needs to
> ...
> > about the ongoing business relationship). So that ISP might well decide 
> > that it's worth paying $1000 (assuming 1c per email) to ensure that their 
> > email doesn't get blocked.
>
> The problem with the GoodMail scheme is that they pay a penny a piece for
> all million recipients. That's $10K, not $1K.
>
> Yes, you read that right.
 
Please re-read my example. I was supposing a (non-spam) mailing by an ISP
of 1 million, of which 100,000 goes to AOL members, which means a cost of
$1000. 

The great thing about the Goodmail scheme, is that if a spammer wants to 
spew out 100 million junk emails, then if he wants the premium service for 
those, it'll cost him $1 million. Yes, you read that right. And that's why 
spammers aren't going to send totally untargeted email to completely 
uninterested people, in the hope that they get a couple of dozen sales out 
of the 100 million emails.

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