Re: [Asrg] Stamps

["Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortelnetworks.com>]

Keith Moore wrote:
> > Spam exists because there is an (almost zero) fixed cost associated with 
> > sending it out.
>
> false.  snail mail spam exists despite having significant costs associated
> with sending it.
But despite it having been in existance for, what?, 50+ years, the 
"striker equivalent" isn't getting 1,000,000 snail mail ads a day. Or 
even at a more normal level, few people are getting, even 5 per day.

The economics are simply that the break-even rate, instead of being "a 
few in a hundred" as it is with snail mail spam, some spammers can 
"prosper"[*] with a return of "one in a million".

[*] Be leary of claims.  Most spammers who claim to be raking in the 
megabucks are actually, currently, in flight from the repo man ;-)  Eg: 
Jef Slaton (if you remember who he was).

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