2009/7/14 Erick NNN <erickarn@gmail.com>

Shiro, I can also add;

5. Value; a few years ago an "unconfirmed" email address could be resold for about 10 cents US, and a "confirmed" one for 25 cents US. By registering, you're "confirming" your email address and raising it's value. So there's no reassurance that it will not be resold to spammers.

6. Spambots; by registering, you're confirming that you're human, not a bot in someone's registration roll. "Captchas" also work the same way.

I think there's more negative results than positive ones for kawaida users, so BugMeNot is probably a good idea.

Erick

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Areba Collins <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:

@shiro, i can think of ten reasons for them wanting you to register:

1: thats 3 (or more) pageviews for their site, and traffic is good for
whoever wants to convince his (or HER) advertisers to advertise.

2: You will give them a working email address, that will register as a
"hit" in their email campaigns, whether they register or not.

3: They might want to contact you in future to tell you that the free
script they gave you is full of malware and has wiped out your data,
so now go download another one to replace it ...

4: who said ten reasons? thats probably it, unless mna ya kuongeza.

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