Get Spammed Get Paid

No - this isn't about suing spammers once they've spammed you. Instead a startup - Affini has launched a free email service where spammers pay users to receive email.

Instead of users paying for a spam filter program, mailers pay Affini about $.15 per email sent. Some of this money makes it back to users in the form of a `points' system. By other online advertising standards this offers a poor value. Pay per click advertising can be had for about the same price. The difference is that with pay per click advertisers are paying for actual traffic to their website by users who searched for a certain term. The difference in conversion to sales can be radical depending on how customers arrive at information regarding your product (whether it be in an email or on a website). Unqualified traffic typically has much lower value than search based traffic. SpamButcher can block unwanted emails with up to 98% effectiveness. The SpamButcher spam blocker program can be downloaded as a free trial from www.spambutcher.com.

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