Re: [Asrg] Email Postage (was Re: FeedBack loops)

["David Nicol" <davidnicol at gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-asrg at hjp.at> wrote:

> You either need a marketing genius who can persuade everyone to convert
> to the new system at once, or you need to offer an advantage to the
> early adopters, so that the new system can grow incrementally. I won't
> speculate about the former, but I don't see the latter. It won't
> decrease spam unless widely adopted, so there is no gain, only cost.
>
>        hp

Advenge is a scheme of the second type of those two types.

The advantages for the early adopters include:
  * control over what is allowed into the in-box, meaning easier of
     unsubscription from mailing lists
  * no more false positives caught in spam folder
  * no spam folder at all
  * income stream

It immediately decreases spam for those who are using it; and does not
decrease spam for everybody.  I believe we have been over many times
that insisting that a solution apply to everyone instantaneously is
like trying to teach a pig to sing.
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