Re: But Facebook are not spammers

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Valdis to Justin Scott:

> Hint: If they can reach your site, they probably have http access to the
> Internet.  And at that point, they also have access to Hotmail and Yahoo
> and Gmail and...  As a result, I have to wonder who the target audience is
> that *can* reach your client's service but can't reach a free webmail service.

_And_ once whoever it is that blocks his audience's access to (free) 
webmail services discovers their users are getting around those blocks 
via this new site, they will block this site also...

Surely Justin is smarter than to have missed that (he managed to sign 
up to this mailing list, so that's probably a given, right?  8-) ), so 
something doesn't add up there...

...

I suspect the key is in Justin's claim:

   The people using the system can't use e-mail directly and other
   means of communications are either prohibitively expensive, very
   slow, or unavailable.

Presumably the intended users of this service are on some (quasi-) 
proprietary network that does not support (via gatewaying?) the full 
raft of TCP/IP protocols but does gateway HTTP (not necessarily from 
the service's users to the Internet -- perhaps just from the server 
side of selected proprietary service offerrings on that network, 
including this new service?).

Think "the old Compu$erve" or "the original AOL" or even "Billy's 
original vision of MSN", I guess.

Oh, and presumably they're doing it over some relatively slow medium, 
such as dial-up or "less than 3G cell" but (and to put this more on the 
prescribed off-topic charter of the list) probably not as low bandwidth 
and/or slow/laggy as IP over avian carriers (RFC 1149).



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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