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Building Better Spam
henbane writes "Cringely is plugging a new method of advertising from Dr. Jim Kowalick and Mario Fantoni. Their book entitled 'E-Mailing Your Way to Sales With
the Taguchi Approach' is out in the autumn. What could be worse than a method which increases the returns on spam?"
SCO wins the whole thing, and you have to pay them whatever they want to charge for Linux. That would be worse ...
-glynor
Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.
This is the only way to stop this. Either enact enormous fines for the end advertisers, or let us sue them for the costs of dealing with their unwanted advertisements ( much as we do now with unsolicited faxes here in my state ).
Its impossible to catch and stop all the actual spammers, but the things they are pushing HAVE to be traceable to someone in order to make the sale.
Make it too costly a risk to do advertising this way and it will stop.
And yes I'm appalled by the sue-happy and legislate-happy state we are becoming, but sometimes it IS appropriate and unfortunately needed.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
A stick dipped in rancid pork and shoved into my left eye. That would be worse. But not by a lot.
That's +2 Insightful! Funny, perhaps. Interesting, perhaps. But Insightful?
Wow. This explains so much about slashdot.
Who said Freedom was Fair?
In other news, *BSD is dying, and has been for years. Now it's death will finally be sealed, since Apple (who is also dying) uses a BSD kernel for their Macintosh Operating System.
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