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The Economics of Spam
higgins writes "The Wall Street Journal has the best story I've ever seen on the economics of spam. A self-described "spam queen" (Clean link; should work for non-subscribers) talks about not just the millions of emails she spews, but what it costs per mailing ($250 for 500k emails), what the response rates are (1-2 one-thousandths percent) and what she actually makes. (40% of each sale of one product: anti-spam software)."
Good gawd...
No wonder she chose an 'occupation' that doesn't require interaction with others. She looks like a smacked ass!
Blah. It's even a Photoshop filtered black & white picture, which is usually done to make someone look good. They had to do it to her just to upgrade her face to hideous.
I always figured spammers were ugly.
Knunov
Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
That is not a nice thing to do, calling someone just to bug them.
When you call her be sure to ask her to take your name off her list, and please recall to verify that it has happened.
After all, as long as you are not breaking any laws, she doesn't have to love you or like what I do for a living.
laura@dataresourceconsulting.com
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Just as well you didn't post her her phone number
Alison
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
C'mon, we can't be hypocritical here. You can't call someone up in the middle of the night unless you have an existing business relationship with them.
That's right, no calls unless you've been the recipient of her SPAM.
[Checking inbox... "You Have 362 Unread Messages"]
Well, guess that's taken care of... What was Ms. Betterly's phone number again?
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
We all knew that spammers weren't the brightest bulbs on the planet, but giving an interview with your real name and location to a national newspaper does seem a bit foolish, doesn't it?
"I'm just trying to make a living like everyone else," says Tony Soprano. His waste manangement operation, he says, allows hime to raise his children, and to spend quality time with them. "You can call a mob boss, I don't really care. As long as I don't get caught, you don't have to love me or like what I do for a living."
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Colombian drug lords make a living by selling a real product to a customer. It is very unfair of you to insult them by equating them with parasites like Ms Betterly.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
There is a tree line there just BEGGING for geeks in black suits to sneak up thru carrying the worlds worst paintball guns and waterballoon launchers (waterballoons filled with permanent red paint of course).
The waterline is a river you can canal-boat thru, giving you a stealthy getaway, and quiet access.
I cant imagine a much easier target for a full-on paint demolition.
Should do wonders for her house value.
GPL'd web-based tradewars themed space game
Ah even better the double reply CC trick....
2 computers with forwarders set up and one attempts to wangle them to fire an email back and fwd to each other, while cc'ing each time to that email.
In about ten minutes she should receive about 1000 emails saying "Your a bad lady, but I forgive you, so I've attached a core dump file to this email as a present". Catch... May kill your own mailer machines too.
I once sent a 'Get fcked' email to a spammer once and copped an autoreply...
So I sent another one, with the header forged so that it said it came from the machine account autoresponding.(Causing autoresponder loop death) The machine responded to pings for about 2 minutes, and then fell off the earth. Infinite loop email death. THAT'L LEARN YA , YA NUTTY SPAMMER!!!!!!!!
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