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Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction
Date: 
Mon, 25 Sep 2000 20:36:34 GMT
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This of course falls apart for most US ISPs, as they GENERALLY don't charge per
message or connection time (if you have an ISP that does, GET A NEW ONE).

Entirely different matter overseas, though, where often you pay for connection
time.


Christopher Weeks wrote:

Can you break down how much his incomming ad cost you?  He might very well be
willing to reimburse you for your expense.  I know that my ISP at home is about
$1 per day, and I get about 50-75 notes each day.  So I guess each one is maybe
$.02.  Adding the cost of my time into it I guess we could say the time is
worth $100/hour and it takes me about half a second to look at the subject and
hit delete.  So that comes to <scribble, scribble> 1.4 cents.  So are your
numbers just way more than mine, or is the 3.4 cents that big a deal?

Chris

--
| Tom Stangl, Technical Support          Netscape Communications Corp
|      Please do not associate my personal views with my employer



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  Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
 
(...) per (...) Nah, mine charges for disk space. E-mail falls under "disk space". Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction)

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What are the defining attributes of spam? If there is some universally agreed upon definition, feel free to just point me to that. Why is it that there is a positive correlation between the degree of net savvyness and spite toward spam? I've been on (...) (24 years ago, 25-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.auction)

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