Spam costs me more than ZANGO

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  • Linguist
    Confirmed User
    • Apr 2004
    • 1706
    #1

    Spam costs me more than ZANGO

    With all the Zango bashing threads, I figure I would let everyone know that checking my junk box for emails I may have missed, or deleting junk mail from the inbox has taken more of my time during the past 3 years than dealing with spyware.

    Whoever says that the two are not in the same league should go and fuck themselves. Spam, in my opinion, is worse than Zango. I cannot opt out of it, I cannot delete it. No matter how much I know about computer security, I cannot filter it. I can filter Zango and others with no problem.

    The reason for this post is that last week has become RIDICULOUS spam wise. If most of spam emails were hitting my junk mail before, last week about 20% keeps coming into my inbox. Thats BULLSHIT. I have my client check mail every minute and I get distracted from my daily schedule whenever some crap arrives.

    CLIFFNOTES: Spam has overall cost me more time (which is money) than Zango.
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    • Brujah
      Beer Money Baron
      • Jan 2001
      • 22157
      #2
      Who is your email through?

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        • elasticatedman
          Confirmed User
          • Jan 2002
          • 120
          #3
          <I can filter Zango and others with no problem.>

          Very interesting. How do you filter adware on a surfer's machine? I'd like some of that.
          From onions to pearls

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            • Linguist
              Confirmed User
              • Apr 2004
              • 1706
              #4
              Originally posted by Brujah
              Who is your email through?
              I use a mail server with SpamAssasin and filter the messages that come in with Thunderbird. This set up seems to normally do the job except that I miss an occassional mail or two that gets mislabeled.
              315-310

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                • brand0n
                  been very busy
                  • Nov 2002
                  • 26983
                  #5
                  whats your email addy? ill remove you.

                  sorry bout that
                  want to buy this spot for cheap? it is of course for sale. long term deals are always the best bet. brand0n/ at/ a o l dot commies.

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                    • Linguist
                      Confirmed User
                      • Apr 2004
                      • 1706
                      #6
                      Originally posted by elasticatedman
                      <I can filter Zango and others with no problem.>

                      Very interesting. How do you filter adware on a surfer's machine? I'd like some of that.
                      What I'm trying to say is that dealing with spam on average costs webmasters more money than they potentially lose in sales from Zango - unless they are very well established and spend little time on their computer or don't care whether they miss emails - which is less than 3% of GFY.

                      Also, spyware relies on user retardation. If we teach surfers, they will not be installing it. Yet no one can escape spam.
                      315-310

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                        • BlackCrayon
                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                          • Jun 2003
                          • 19634
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Linguist
                          What I'm trying to say is that dealing with spam on average costs webmasters more money than they potentially lose in sales from Zango - unless they are very well established and spend little time on their computer or don't care whether they miss emails - which is less than 3% of GFY.

                          Also, spyware relies on user retardation. If we teach surfers, they will not be installing it. Yet no one can escape spam.
                          wow, you just don't get it. of course webmasters aren't likely to fall victim to adware/spyware/whatever but obviously surfers do at an alarming amount otherwise zango wouldn't be banking over 50 million per year.

                          i guarentee zango and the like cost webmasters more money than spam does. sure spam takes a bit of time to sort through ect, but say i lose 4 30 dollar sales to adware per day. thats 120/day, 840/week, 3360/month. i would rather get that money and get 100 or more spams to sort though per day. who does business through email these days anyways? most people use icq, etc.
                          you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..

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                            • SmokeyTheBear
                              ►SouthOfHeaven
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 28609
                              #8
                              if your found out your employer was spamming your customers you brought with links that didnt have your ref code would you be mad ??

                              p.s. you cant filter zango anymore than you can filter spam..
                              hatisblack at yahoo.com

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                                • tranza
                                  ICQ: 197-556-237
                                  • Jun 2003
                                  • 57559
                                  #9
                                  Yeah, I agree...

                                  Let's all fight spam now!
                                  I'm just a newbie.

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                                    • elasticatedman
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Jan 2002
                                      • 120
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by Linguist
                                      ...

                                      Also, spyware relies on user retardation. If we teach surfers, they will not be installing it. Yet no one can escape spam.
                                      It relies on advertiser retardation too
                                      From onions to pearls

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                                        • RawAlex
                                          So Fucking Banned
                                          • Oct 2003
                                          • 9465
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Linguist
                                          What I'm trying to say is that dealing with spam on average costs webmasters more money than they potentially lose in sales from Zango - unless they are very well established and spend little time on their computer or don't care whether they miss emails - which is less than 3% of GFY.

                                          Also, spyware relies on user retardation. If we teach surfers, they will not be installing it. Yet no one can escape spam.
                                          You are going to be a busy boy... Zango claims 150k new installs a day for them alone.... so apparently there are very many "retarded" surfers out there.

                                          Woudl you care to insult their families now too?

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                                            • Why
                                              MFBA
                                              • Mar 2003
                                              • 7230
                                              #12
                                              one is stealing your time, and another has been accuse of stealing your surfers, money in the bank is worth more then time, as you would be losing while you slept. so this thread is kind of askew.

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