How Powerful is the Turn-Off Power of Spam?

Posted by Cliff on Friday August 6, 2004 @03:11PM from the spam-and-its-anti-marketing-effect dept.

JayBonci asks: "Here's a question to the Slashdot readerbase. How powerful is the turnoff power of spam? With an upcoming political election in the United States, and a nation not very-well defended against mass unsolicited emailings, what kind of anti-marketing medium is spam? Could a spammer push out millions of: 'V0te for G3orge W. Bush!' or 'J0hn Kerry for Presidnet@', in the hopes to turn off (or on) voters. Spam marketing penetration is terrible (I've heard figures like .001%), but how powerful is its anti-marketing capabilities? An interesting discussion for the Slashdot audience." How often do you make the decision to NOT buy something form a company because you know they engage in spamming activities?

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California Spam King Bill Jones running for Senate by dananderson · 2004-08-06 19:40 · Score: 3, Informative

Spam King Bill Jones is running for U.S. Senate from California. He doesn't have a chance, but to make sure his spam activities receive broad daylight, please link to my website http://billjonessucks.com/ until this November 2nd. Thanks. We now return you to your regular programming. . .