Being a shell provider - good business?

[Art Vandelay]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Art Vandelay <therapshow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello. My friend thinks that being a shell provider for IRC bots and
> bouncers is very good business. How do I convince him it's not?
>
> Sorry for going off-topic and cross-post, but I don't know who else to ask.
>
> Thanks,
> NRS http://nrk.no/p3/program/national_rap_show/
>

I'm serious, I'm trying to get him to use his BSD servers for other
purposes. Maybe webhosting. Maybe a grid to help out local universities in
their supercomputing. Or just plain consulting. Isn't there any research
article out there showing just how silly and profitless that whole business
model is?

Thanks guys,
NRS http://nrk.no/p3/program/national_rap_show/