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Porn Dominates the Spam Battlefield

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bus-plunges-off-ravine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New York Times has published an article that explores the economics that control what type of spam shows up in your inbox. The study was done by CipherTrust and shows that porn spam is 280 times more effective than spam advertising pharmacy drugs. Paul Judge offered the following towards an explanation: 'If you look at some of the oldest and most successful forms of business on earth, they revolve around sex.'"

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  1. porn and new media by kisrael · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They say porn is one of the early drivers of new visual media, from the printing press to moves to cable to video and dvd to the internet.

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  2. At last! by palad1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Victory is mine!

  3. Porn Dominates the Spam Battlefield by Kid+Zero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dominates? *snicker*

    Best Title in awhile, guys. :D