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

2008-11-14 10:51:01

On Nov 13, 2008, at 17:26, David Wall wrote:
Well, you'll need to beat most ISPs for it to work since the spammers will use those that don't, and half the world will be sending using the other, so unless your email system is happy to reach only half of the worldwide users, you'll be a winner.

Facebook's e-mail system can only reach other people who have signed up for Facebook, and who you've mutually identified as a friend. Yet surveys suggest (*) that amongst younger people, Facebook and other social networking sites have completely usurped the purpose of e-mail, and that young people perceive e-mail as something that old people use.

But clearly this is impossible, so it cannot have happened.

The spammers are trying to work on cracking Facebook, of course.


mathew
[ (*) Sorry, don't have free references to hand. ]

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