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Spam Not So Profitable?
- jacquesm 17y agoSending out 300M+ spam messages to do research ? That's a little over the top isn't it ?
- michael_dorfman 17y agoUnfortunately, it's more like spitting in the ocean. As of 2007, the worldwide spam estimate was about 100B messages per day.
- CWuestefeld 17y agoIt's frustrating to consider on one hand the tremendous amount they're costing in bandwidth, IT expenses, and lost productivity; and on the other hand, the relatively trivial amount of money they're making for it. Whatever became of CANSPAM? It seems like the government made a regulation, declared victory, and went on to the next soundbite -- completely abandoning the battle after preventing anyone else from fighting it through the legal system.
- ableal 17y agoThe lack of a citation in the article bothered me (just mentions "[a] new report by researchers at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley"). So I searched for the "magic" 347,590,389 number. It seems to be this Oct. 2008 paper by Kanich et al.: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ckanich/papers/spamalytics.pdf http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ckanich/papers/spamalytics.pdf I also found a good summary (mentioning BBC reports ...) here: http://blog.mailchannels.com/2008/11/is-spamming-more-profitable-than-anti.html http://blog.mailchannels.com/2008/11/is-spamming-more-profit... Amusingly, this submission's linked article, datelined (2009) July 15, is from a site with a "realtime IT news" banner ...