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The Continuing Rise of E-Mail Marketing
Mark Cantrell writes: "Yahoo is running a story from Reuters Internet Report that says that companies like Doubleclick are becoming more popular with online businesses because of the low price they charge. $25 for 1000 people spammed is the example given. They do mention that there is a threat that spam may get out of hand, however. May get? Obviously they haven't seen my mailbox or Usenet lately. My favorite quote from the article:
'I think spam is becoming a problem,' Bluefly's Seiff said. 'Any time you get clutter in your mailboxes, it is not beneficial to e-mail marketers like us.'" The article touches on true spam, but mostly talks about the much more benign stuff lumped under "direct marketing," like reminder updates from stores you cleared to send it to you.
to start slaying spammers by the scores. If enough of them are dismembered by rusty chainsaws and crucified to their email servers, you'll see spam thin out pretty damn quick. It's time to take back the rights of the people the good, old-fashioned, all-American way--horrfic, unbridled violence.
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It's not enough to put them out of business, we have make spammers suffer in such a manner that they would welcome hell as a less agonizing alternative. And once we have used this method to take care of the spammers, it's time to move on to the RIAA. I got dibs on Hilary!