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How is it spam? Seen that we will only send sms ads to those who were willing. I'm thinking of a max of 3 ads per person per day.
by wairagu 15y ago
How is it spam? Seen that we will only send sms ads to those who were willing. I'm thinking of a max of 3 ads per person per day.
- bediger 15y agoHow is not going to be abused? Every service on the internet gets abused to send spam. Also, where's your incentive to not spam? I don't know how many emails I've gotten FALSELY claiming that I've "opted in" to this email. I do know how many have actually taken me OFF their email list when I requested: ZERO. Before no-call-lists, phone spammers were required to send you copies of their own no-call-policy if you asked in the right manner. I asked each and every phone call spammer for some months. Most of them hung up on me when I said the magic words, "Put me on your no-call list." Of the dozens I said this to, I got exactly ONE written copy of their no-call policy. I fully expect this service, due to lack of incentives not to spam, to end up spamming. Bad luck for you.
- wairagu 15y agoHi Bediger, thanks for your advice so far, I feel like I should not start the service. I don't know why you feel there will be spam, every service gets abused by spammers I know. But we thought of preventing spamming this way: Advertisers do not send the ads directly to users, all they do is indicate to us that lets say 'we want to send this message to women who are between 25 to 45 years old', Then we will perform a search on our database and find the users who match that criteria. And send them the ads our selfs to only those users matching that criteria. Again thanks for you're opinion, it will help me think about it.