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Spam Doesn't Work?
An anonymous reader writes "Businesses who believe the hype that spam works should read this article. It seems that the more recipients that you spam, the less likely they are to respond (startlingly obvious, but this seems to prove it)." Somehow I doubt this. If Spam didn't work, why do I get a hundred
pieces of it every morning? Someone is buying.
My penis is 12" long, and I have never run out of laser toner. Surely this proves it!?
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14% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Besides, statistics don't mean anything. 32% of all people know that.
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> I'm gonna put my email down here... maxcohen@meditech.com and find out how quickly spammers harvest it
Nice try Max. If you need a Penis enlarger, just say so. You don't have to pretend this is a "market experiment".
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so the more spam sent the more buying happens.. simple logic"
Hypothesis: A sucker is born every minute.
OK, so scale that up to the population of the earth: Send out 6x10^9 spams. How many responses do you get?
6x10^9 / 10^4 = 600000
Thus by this scaling, there are 6x10^6 suckers on earth.
Now how many minutes are there in a year? 365 d/year* 24 h/day * 60 min/h = 525600 minutes/year
5.26 x 10^6 == (approx) 6 x 10^6
Thus the number of suckers on the planet Earth == (approx) the number of minutes in a year!
Conclusion: A sucker is born every minute! (give or take a few)
--- Q.E.D. !!!! --- (Thank you spam research!)
No joke, over 5 spams a day to a spam maildir,
You're only getting 5 spams a day? why the hell do you bother with spamassasin? i'd give my left nut to only get 5 a day. hell, i get 5 spams a day from PEOPLE I KNOW (fwds, chain mail, etc), more like 5 real spam every hour.
people like you don't have a right to use spamassasin. wussy.
First of all there is the annoyance factor. Today I recieved 7 messages from 7 different addresses and they all had the same thing. A picture of a naked woman...the same woman in all 7 messages. Since I never know who is going to be in my house at any given time this is not appropiate.
I do not own my own house and therefore I do not need a second mortgage, nor do I have the ability to sell my non-existant house.
As a guy I'm quite sure that I do not need to enhance my bust size nor does my girlfriend need her penis enlarged.
Spam does not work because there is no targeting involved. People who spam equate thier advertising tricks with TV ads...this is very wrong. Notice with TV ads that there is some thought as to who watches a show at any given time and the ads reflect this. You'll find Supermarket and Food ads near mealtimes, you see car ads when the 30-40 year old people watch, Toys during cartoon or cartoon specials. They target and they work. Spam does not.
Also with TV ads there is a way of getting the product. Car Dealerships give addresses and phone numbers. A Supermarket will tell show you a map. A Toy company will tell you to go to a toy store of your choice. Spam in way of contrast leaves you with no way of contacting the person who sent it as the mailer account changes each time it sends out a batch, and the webpages are often not a listed URL, but nothing more than an IP address...no consumer confidence from me at those pages.
The only thing that Spam sells consistantly is products to ease the symptoms of stress that comes from getting 50 of the [censored]ing things a day.
-- Wiccan Army, 13th Airborne Division "We will not fly silently into the night"
Since they have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that 1 sucker = 1 minute, then the question of which is irrelevant.
And ironically enough, it doesn't taste good either.
my last sig was too controversial... now, a new and improved useless sig!
when the whole thing started to slow down (and it has!) they didn't necessarily have the business sense to adapt to the new market so they kept doing what they always did. by hook or by crook. spam may have worked once and the adult webmaster involved might have seen one signup in every 10,000 emails that went out. so the numbers dropped to 1 in every 100,000 - what do you do? send 10 times more spam. smart, huh? i don't do it with my site (nameless but strong) because i think there are much better ways...
You sound qualified to write Running a Porn Site for Dummies (Or "Setup a Porn Site in 21 Days with Java and XML"). Even if one decides against it, it could make for an interesting read.....minus the Java and XML.
Table-ized A.I.
And he discovered it the hard way. I don't think anyone here will ever forget how he blacklisted himself from every IT employer in the industry.
If you want to avoid spam. Just get an e-mail address such as abuse@yourdomainhere.com. After 4 years with using this type of scheme, I have yet to get spammed.