SPAMMING IS EVERYONE'S CONCERN

(470) (18-September-2006)

An evil that is not just a search engine problem

Posters on a top message board debated the ethical as well as practical issues surrounding spamming by some companies and/or their affiliates this week, leading to a succinct summary on why this persistent problem affects us all.
 
Poster lots0 provided a crisp and clear argument to the claim by another poster that spamming was not an affiliate or watchdog issue, but one for the search engines to sort out.  In his response, lots0 pointed out:
 
"You make the same lame argument every spammer I have ever talked too has made... FYI - I have been talking too spammers for years and years and the flawed spammer argument/logic never changes.
 
"Casino search spam effects everyone in the online casino business in a bad way...let me tell you why search engine spam is not just Google's problem:
 
"When search engine spam costs me money, its my problem, not Google's
(Google does not care if I make money or not).
 
"When my property is stolen and used by someone else to make themselves money (scraped pages) it is MY problem not Google's.
 
"When my customers and visitors are negatively effected by search engine spam it is MY business.
 
"When the entire online gambling industry is made to look like bad guy spammers (like it does when spam fills the search engine results pages) it is my business, because it costs me money and respect.
 
"When users are being redirected to ripoff casinos via search engine spam, it is MY business, because again, it effects my business.
 
"Every time a US Senator's wife or a Congressmen's kid make a search for some innocuous fact and finds non-related Casino Search Engine Spam , it is MY business, because again, it effects my business.
 
"So when online casinos turn bad and start search engine or email spamming it is in MY best interests and MY customers, visitors and the online casino industry best interests to blacklist the bad casinos and make all their dirty little dealings very public. Then the public can make an informed decision if they want to deposit their money with them."
 
InfoPowa could not have said it better.