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In (Sort Of) Defense of Spammers

Posted by timothy on from the unenlightened-self-interest dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Eric Allman of Sendmail has a rant in which he looks at the economic forces that have led to the spam problem: 'The sad point of all of this is that I'm going to (sort of) defend the spammers and point out that they are responding to basic economic forces that we all respond to at one level or another. As long as spammers can take in more money than it costs them, they will continue to spam. This is "rational" behavior in the economic sense.'" Otherwise known as the Willie Sutton principle.

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did I make it again?

    -DT

  2. What happened to Dean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I don't get it.

    I'm not American and I find it quite amazing that a former forerunner candidate who's smart and actually has a personality could lose 17-0 to such a non-entity like Kerry.

    What happened? Don't tell me it was his scream.

  3. "Blogging" is for self-important attention-seekers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I've had to find some answers recently about incompatibility between Legato Networker and Mac OS 10.3 and these weblogs I keep tripping over written by many of Mac's faithful are making me nauseous.

    Technorati is lousy with these awful sites... these words and efforts need to stop being wasted in this tremendous circle-jerk and put to use for good.

  4. Re:Spammers aren't the only ones by ratamacue · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's amazing that people are so quick to equate victimless crimes (drug offenses) with real agression (fraud), simply because government says they are both illegal.

    We still despise them

    Who's "we"? The only people I despise are those who initiate force against others.

  5. Re:Spammers aren't the only ones by diersing · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I for one, welcoming our new spamming overloards.

    Spam is dead, LONG LIVE SPAM!!

  6. Please don't subscribe me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please do not subscribe me, noverify@users.pc9.org it's an abuse of my email address!

  7. Re:Tell me you're kidding... by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "I've seen it in Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston and New York. I've even seen it in places that you've never heard of, like Nampa, Idaho and Portsmouth, Rhode Island."

    Yeah, where the hell is Idaho and Rhode Island?

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