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Dean, how many companies that spam do you sell your content to? You're profiting from spam if you get money from spam sponsors, right?
Here goes an un-PC comment, but mail traffic is actually the most valuable. Less bandwidth used, higher conversion ratios, generaly rebill longer = more profitable.
If you were a sponsor, would you rather have someone send you 100 joins a day and burn minimal bandwidth or send you 10 per day with hosted galleries that are much more bandwidth heavy and whos conversions are worse?
Generally mail-friendly sponsors end the tolerance when the heat level is too high. That's why most of the top spammers are held in esteem by programs as they can deliver numbers with minimal complaints, they don't hit chatboard complaining about payouts or ratios or shaving or other bullshit.
Now, if some dude has no fucking clue what he's doing, just bought his cd-rom of 200000000 aol email addresses and some generic mailing software, the complaints will go through the roof and it won't be profitable so the sponsor is going to shitcan them.
I've been asked if EGC is mailer friendly. We're very picky about any mail traffic. For us to accept mail traffic, it has to be someone we know has a clean double opt-in list, honors remove requests, etc. We're not as lenient with heat complaints as most sponsors are.
The biggest problem with spam is the sheer number of amateurs doing it and flooding the market and pissing people off, not knowing what the fuck they are doing. This hurts everyone. These are generally the people spamming kids, not checking for duplicates on same day/week/monthly runs, not honoroing remove requests, etc.
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