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Spam Increases Make Things Tough For Companies

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the to-say-nothing-of-little-old-me dept.

dosten sent us a link to a story running on Cnet about the spam epidemic. My favorite stat is that by 2006, we'll be getting 1400 spam a year. Of course, I already get that every week. Talks about foreign spam relays, block lists, and so on. Decent piece explaining a huge problem that's only getting worse.

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  1. Law makers might realize the problem. by www.sorehands.com · · Score: 5, Funny
    Maybe after seeing this lawmakers will realize the extent of the problem.


    The Chinese government ignored SPAM problems, until enough people blacklisted China and then they took notice.


    Maybe we should forward all the spam that we receive to congress, with a little note attached. Maybe they would take notice, then.

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  2. How profitable is spam? by Yoda2 · · Score: 5, Funny
    I know its cheap, but I'm really curious to see how much spammers really profit from their ads. There has to be a certain profile for the person who really believes that they can enlarge their penis by "clicking here".

    Maybe the spammers should focus on only AOL addresses since their members seem to like daily solicitation, and leave the rest of us alone!

  3. Re:Solving the spam problem? by nucal · · Score: 3, Funny
    There is a variety of heavy machinery that could be used to result in a much larger (but paper thin) penis.

    Yeah, I think that one comes from Acme!

  4. Re:not all the time. by meta_gorn · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK, I stand corrected: Law makers need sponsorship from a corporation, religious conservatives, the gun lobby, or Jane Fonda before taking any legislative initiatives. ;)

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  5. it was nice by abolith · · Score: 2, Funny

    when my ISP decided to block ALL inbound mail coming from Asia. the spam dropped from 30 a day to FOUR. then under pressure they opened back up and now I am getting 50+ !!
    *sigh* I hate spammers with a passion. A good friend decided to start spamming from his computer to promote his new business, so I Dos attacked him until he stopped :) after all thats what friends do for each other.

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  6. Re:I block Asia, Russia and other places by alexburke · · Score: 3, Funny

    I also have one for cdnow.com@offwhite.net, cnn.com@offwhite.net, etc. When I sign up for a newsletter or post comments I will know where the incoming spam originated.

    What you've just done is totally b0rk your scheme.

    Spammers are obviously scraping this site.

    And you know about it.

    Brilliant.

    Now, when you get spam to your CDNow or CNN aliases, you won't know where they really came from.

    Idiot...