[dba-SQLServer] Going over to the dark side

I will certainly ask that question but they seem to be selling data sets to
marketing companies.  The guy indicated that it was address data, not email
or phone numbers.  

They want the data on CD/Tape, FedExed to their clients.  There are valid
businesses doing exactly this kind of stuff, and valid plain old postal bulk
mailings that would conceivably use something like this.  From what I've
read about spammers is they often don't even bother with demographics since
it is just cheaper to blast out a million emails to everyone.

I will not get involved with spam but I would have to consider doing this
for a marketing firm that does bulk mail.  I will be asking them about "do
not bother me" lists as a filter to see what they are up to.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:31 PM
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Going over to the dark side


On 12 Aug 2004 at 23:10, John W. Colby wrote:
> 
> Is anyone out there doing something of this nature?  Any words of 
> wisdom?
> 

I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole.

1. It smells like  spam/scam so I wouldn't on principle

2. You are looking at *several* hundred gig of data and indexes and huge 
processing power to be able to pull selected data sets.  

-- 
Stuart


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