From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 8: 2:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5AAD37B405 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:02:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6DFD18F0; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:02:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D551B18EF; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:02:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:02:44 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Martin Karlsson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: this spam In-Reply-To: <20011126100247.A938@foo31-249.visit.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > A few short (OT) questions: Why do spammers spam? I mean, people do not > buy "products" from the guy who sent them spam, do they? (please tell me > they don't...) So, how do spammers make enough money to be able to keep > on spamming? > Your thoughts on this would be much appreciated. Having dealt with a customer who wanted to go this route... here is what I found out: Buying a mailing list of email address is roughly $20.00 per million "verified" addresses. One of the programs (Windows based,) to send out bulk email is about $40.00 Out of a million addresses they say you get about .5% sales, which is 5000 (assuming I did my math right! :) If you're selling your product at $10 a hit... you can make a profit pretty quickly with minimal effort on your part. Which to me is the real attraction... American's believe in minimal effort to get rich. (BTW... I was able to convince that customer NOT to go this route... by subscribing them to a couple of large mailing lists.. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message