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Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users
An anonymous reader writes "'About a third of people responded to a spam, seeking more information. And 7 percent actually bought a product or service.' Who are these people? Is this really what non-techies do with Spam? They can have my Spam if they want it :-)"
an intelligent person who bought something off a spam. These are the same people who are getting herbal viagra while dreaming of a larger penis while writing up their resignation since they'll get so much money from that nice Nigerian man.
slashdot, news for crazed liberal socialist zealots
until these numbers drop, spam will continue to push it's way into our email boxes...
but, there is hope, you can only enlarge your penis so many times.
Runnin' On Empty
The blurb reminds me of "Every five seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman is having a baby. Our job is to find that woman, and stop her." Par for slashdot, I suppose.
Oxman's 15-year-old son, Robert, says five out of six e-mails he gets daily are spam, often including offers of pornography or dating services. Robert says he simply deletes them.
Robert would neither comment on the delay between when he received the pornographic emails and when he deleted them, nor would he comment on his activities during that time.
Unfortunately, most media companies don't care about the statistical validity of their surveys; they only care about how interesting the survey will seem to their readers. One of the newspapers in my city (Toronto) ran a huge university ranking story last week, based on student reviews. The funny thing was that two of the universities in the top-10 ranking for medical schools didn't actually HAVE medical schools.
:) What can you do. Aside from complaining on Slashdot, of course.
Awhell
A few years ago I had a rather nasty realization; as 100 is the mean IQ, that means fully one half of the population has an IQ below 100.
This realization has brought me peace. I'm no longer frustrated at the stupidity of the "average" person...they just can't help it.
"How perfectly Goddamn delightful it all is, to be sure" Charles Crumb
No longer do you have to be rediculed because your sample size is too small! With our new, patented system you can increase your sample size GARANTEED! Just click here and impress those survey ladies at the mall with your new, bigger sample size!
I never hide my email when posting on forums or anywhere online.
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Garak (100517)
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Come again?
I never know what I might find,
p am/01f ree_winner.shtml
on any day I go online.
I used to get in quite a huff,
while wading through unwanted stuff.
But then I changed the man I am,
the day I answered all my spam.
Now every time I check my box,
I load up on fantastic stocks.
I'll gladly say I felt no loss,
when, with a smile, I fired my boss.
With just one click, the best thing yet,
I freed myself of all my debt.
I have, paying a few small fees,
ten university degrees.
Now that I'm losing all this weight,
I'm sure, someday, I'll get a date.
Instead of going to a show,
I spy on everyone I know.
(That's easy, since I have in hand,
this nifty wireless video cam.)
I spend my evenings viewing screens,
of barely legal horny teens.
And with a little credit charge,
Whoopee! My penis was enlarged!
Meanwhile these shots of Britney Spears
should be enough to last for years.
And so I lead this online life,
my monitor is now my wife.
It has become my greatest dream,
to launch my own get-rich-quick scheme.
And if you think you might get missed,
relax, you're on my e-mail list.
SATIREWIRE'S 2ND ANNUAL POETRY SPAM
2001 FREESTYLE WINNER:
"I Answered All My Spam"
by Alex Silbajoris, Columbus, Ohio
http://www.satirewire.com/features/poetry_s
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Not at all, Tech Support will become a breeze. No emails coming in, and the response to any complaint: "We sent you an email about it, you *have* added our support email address to your whitelist haven't you? Oh you don't know how? We'll email you instructions."
You mean besides all those good-looking men and really butch women?
-moitz-
Screw 'em...who cares what anyone thinks.
"Sure, I'd like to hear about your vacation timeshares. You don't mind if I masturbate while you give your pitch, do you? You have a real sexy voice. I bet your mouth is pretty."
Telemarketers get nothing but abuse from me.
The only ones who haven't taken me off their list, apparently, are the ones who solicit for the police. Now, I think the police ought to either find a way to support themselves or else get out of the business, but even I can't bring myself to torture their telemarketers.
Some people have told me there's a law of karma, that these people are just doing their shitty job, or that I might sink that low someday.
I want to be part of ENDING the industry, so that when I DO sink that low, I won't have to be faced with that option.
And I don't really give a flying fuck what the person who called me thinks about it. If they came to the door with this garbage, the door would be slammed in their face, hard, if they didn't get the hint that I answered the door with a gun in my hand and a rotweiller growling.
They obviously didn't answer the spam offering them a larger sample size...