Re: domain name list

From: Brad Jensen <brad_at_elstore.com>
Date: Mon 07 Aug 2000 17:01:29 -0500

ADAM LASNIK <adam_at_smilezone.com> WROTE:
> I've spent some time debating whether or not to write
> you (and this list)... unsure of whether we'll be able
> to sway you from the Dark Side, or perhaps whether
> you're simply having fun riling up a lot of folks.

Youve got to twust me....

> How do you know your spam won't reach
> people outside the U.S.? Indeed, in most other
> countries, people do pay (and often pay dearly) for
> their internet time.

My plan was to send to postmaster @ domain.com, with no
foreign extensions.

That;'s the only people I can idenitify generically as
reasonably likely users of the product, since it is
designed for postmasters to help them do their jobs.
(Not his job or her job.)

> - And indeed, what about the issue of cost in time
> spent? When I get spam with unobvious subject titles,
> I have to take time to scan, then delete the e-mail.
> Assuming that the time of many of your recipients is
> worth $120 an hour (not unreasonable for sysadmins),

If your boss is paying you $240,000 a year, god bless him.

I'm not sure if postmasters are paid that well.

> it takes 5 seconds (on average) to scan/process your
> e-mail for all one million of your spam recipients...
> and that makes a cost of nearly $17,000. And that's
> just taking into account time wasted... not bandwidth
> costs, telecom costs, server costs, archiving costs,
> etc.

Sure, and one guy using my product can easily save his
company or organization that.

My point is that it is only spam if you don't want the
product. I'm not proposing to email to everyone on the
internet. Postmasters are a reasonable subset for me.
My product should work for every postmaster, and even
if he doesn't want it, he might appreciate knowing
about it when the boss reads about it in business week
and asks him.

Brad Jensen brad_at_elstore.com
President
Electronic Storage Corporation Tulsa OK USA
918-664-7276
LaserVault Report Retrieval & Data Mining
www.Laservault.com




Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 17:01:29 CDT