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Originally posted by quite
btw, most interesting thread i've seen in days
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Originally posted by SykkBoy2
If what I keep hearing through the grapevine is any indication, spam is becoming oversaturated and a lot of the bigger guys are even having problems making the money they used to.
There are still a handful of guys making the big bucks, but the days of 500-600+ joins per day from mailing are getting closer to ending.
I know when I used to "put people together" for creative marketing, it used to be a huge thing, now it's getting tighter with fewer resources and it's getting more expensive. The high price of BP hosting is making it even more expensive and cost prohibitive. It's not spamhaus/spamcop pissypants whining that is making a dent, it's the opportunists with overseas hosting connections jacking up prices for BP hosting....
there is still money to be made in legit opt-in mailing and even outright spamming, but it's not what it used to be and newbies will get eaten alive...hell, even I'm too much of a newbie to attempt it these days...
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Yes, but do you think these people are about to cash out and go get a job at walmart? Or else work 12 hour days to build a solid, quality site that can obtain bookmarkers (although they do have a bit of cash to save them having to do the work themselves). The point is though, they aren't going to be applying for a new job anytime soon (they'd be idiotic if they did). If email spam becomes illegal, they will find another way to live off of the internet, or rather live off other people.
The capitalist market ideally is meant to foster innovative ideas, and thus forward society as a whole, by having financial rewards as an incentive to those that manage to implement such solutions (an example of great capitalism at work is Google). Instead, and this is especially with the rise of the internet (where anonymity and autonomy can be achieved quite easily), these financial rewards lead others (including myself) to fuck over society.