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I realize there's value added to that it's specifically targeted spamming, but, yes, $1 per message is several orders of magnitude more expensive than normal sp
by toki5 14y ago
I realize there's value added to that it's specifically targeted spamming, but, yes, $1 per message is several orders of magnitude more expensive than normal spamming.
- Retric 14y agoNot when you exclude spam that never makes it to a users inbox.
- Danieru 14y agoThe marginal cost of sending bulk spam is the opportunity cost of the botnet. $1 a message is a one followed by the zeros you get from your cat playing with the zero key times more expensive than bulk spam.
- Retric 14y agoThat's far from accurage. Let's use some vary pessimistic estimates. 183 billion spam messages a day * 1% make it to inbox / 10,000 people world wide making spam / 5$ per person per day = 36,600 messages dollar. Which need to be vary garbled to make it though the inbox so they tend to be instantly ignored by most people. PS: I have seen more detailed estimates that suggest each read spam message costs .1c to 10c depending on how targeted the campaign is.