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I am beginning to think there might be a business model for email in this, that helps the larger providers and senders. If you leave out Spam, who accounts for
by prakash 18y ago
I am beginning to think there might be a business model for email in this, that helps the larger providers and senders.
If you leave out Spam, who accounts for 80% of emails -- it's probably the large newsletters (guessing here.). The larger email providers can charge these newsletters, and the newsletters are assured of guaranteed delivery.
That said, I am sure I am not the first one to come up with this, anyone doing this already?
- briansmith 18y agohttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22pay+for+delivery%22+email http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22pay+for+delivery... http://www.google.com/search?q=trusted+sender http://www.google.com/search?q=trusted+sender http://www.senderscorecertified.com/ http://www.senderscorecertified.com/ and http://goodmail.com/ http://goodmail.com/
- prakash 18y agoThanks. Any idea by what % spam has reduced due to this?
- briansmith 18y ago% spam has probably increased by this, as it is only a barrier to entry to mass-mailers that aren't spammers. Examples are: Paypal, EBay, airlines (although a lot of airline email looks like SPAM to me). You have to verify your identity with state-issued documents for some (all?) of those programs. There are a lot of restrictions (contractual and technical) applied to the messages that are sent through such programs. They are too expensive and risky for spammers to make money using them; in fact, they are too expensive for almost anybody to bother signing up for them.