Comments on: Spam: Enough to lose your appetite. http://www.kellerblog.com/spam-enough-to-lose-your-appetite/ Entrepreneurship and Business Management Thu, 06 May 2010 20:43:35 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Administrator http://www.kellerblog.com/spam-enough-to-lose-your-appetite/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Administrator Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:38:27 +0000 http://www.kellerblog.com/?p=11#comment-31 Preston, I actually think that a nominal fee would probably be really good. I bet you could have it be a government mandate, and then legitimate companies could be reimbursed at the end of every quarter. Hmmm... Thanks for the insight. -John Preston,

I actually think that a nominal fee would probably be really good. I bet you could have it be a government mandate, and then legitimate companies could be reimbursed at the end of every quarter. Hmmm…

Thanks for the insight.

-John

]]> By: Preston Wily http://www.kellerblog.com/spam-enough-to-lose-your-appetite/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Preston Wily Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:58:04 +0000 http://www.kellerblog.com/?p=11#comment-30 When you mark those comments as spam then wordpress is smart enough not to let that ip address post again. I know there are millions of spam ip's out there and people can run off of other ip's, but since I had about a week of bad spam and marked all of them as spam I haven't had any. It's not hard to figure out why people spam - the marginal cost is $0 (or pretty close) and while the marginal benefit is not much better, it is a little bit better. And that's all that matters - as long as the marginal benefit outweighs the marginal cost it will continue. A proposed solution a few years ago for email spam (which I actually thought was a good idea) was to charge a very small, nominal fee for each outgoing email. I wouldn't mind paying 1 cent for every outgoing email - a few dollars a month wouldn't hurt at all for the time-savings I would save by not having to go through spam email every day. At 1 cent per email I doubt any spammers could stay in business - every 5 million spam blasts would cost $50,000 and the return, obviously, would be much less. I'm not sure how this could apply to blog spam but I have always thought that the solution made a lot of sense. When you mark those comments as spam then wordpress is smart enough not to let that ip address post again. I know there are millions of spam ip’s out there and people can run off of other ip’s, but since I had about a week of bad spam and marked all of them as spam I haven’t had any.

It’s not hard to figure out why people spam – the marginal cost is $0 (or pretty close) and while the marginal benefit is not much better, it is a little bit better. And that’s all that matters – as long as the marginal benefit outweighs the marginal cost it will continue.

A proposed solution a few years ago for email spam (which I actually thought was a good idea) was to charge a very small, nominal fee for each outgoing email. I wouldn’t mind paying 1 cent for every outgoing email – a few dollars a month wouldn’t hurt at all for the time-savings I would save by not having to go through spam email every day. At 1 cent per email I doubt any spammers could stay in business – every 5 million spam blasts would cost $50,000 and the return, obviously, would be much less.

I’m not sure how this could apply to blog spam but I have always thought that the solution made a lot of sense.

]]>