How the Spam Industry is Sustained

mOoZik writes "The BBC has an interesting article about spam and why it's still around. According to a survey, nearly 1/3 of users have clicked on spam messages and 1/10 have bought products advertised therein. "If no-one responded to junk e-mail and didn't buy products sold in this way, then spam would be as extinct as the dinosaurs.""

Comments

Re:Hey (non-)fucker

[inode_buddha]

"I've always wondered how eunuchs sound in bed, so can I do you next?" They probably keep asking what the definition of "is" is, as they ponder the Road Ahead.

Re:That's fucken it.

[Grishnakh]

Get lost, spammer scum.

Re:Just thought this was funny

[ShieldW0lf]

so shut up and deal with it

I don't want to shut up and deal with it. I want to get all my buddies and go chase them down with pitchforks and a noose old school style. And if I get enough buddies together, it's not going to matter how much they sell, now is it?

I know how we can get rid of spam! All we have to do is convince Dubya that spam funds terrorism... him and his buddies have the biggest pitchforks around, and they get a thrill in the crotch from using them, so you know they'll be down for anything.

Re:Dividing by zero continues

[shanen]

So old, and so wrong, too. Sometimes funny, but not in this case, mostly because of your total lack of originality. That's what happens when you blather away without knowing what you are talking about.

Suffice it to say that each of the problems you so "thoughtfully" selected does not apply to the system I described. Go back and *READ* what I wrote. The only specific "objection" that was not already addressed fairly directly was Microsoft. I admit that it's dangerous to ignore them, because that company has shown remarkable diabolical ingenuity in the past, but since this approach is existing transparently on top of the existing SMTP infrastructure, it's hard to see how Microsoft could sabotage it without taking down SMTP, too.

However, it's one of those problems that will solve itself soon enough, so I don't really care. If I was a desperate entrepreneur, I suppose I would be interested in how to make money from it, but I'm just another person waiting for the opportunity to say good bye to spam--and there are certainly enough people like me to support a viable option that really works.