Porn Dominates the Spam Battlefield

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.'"

Comments

Makes sense

[Billosaur]

And why not? When a guy thinks with his other head, he tends to make rash and usually flawed decisions. So you let him do the thinking with that and voila, gravy train. Come on, should this be a shock?

Couldn't read the article (I don't subscribe to the NY Crimes [and I was calling it that long before Congress got into the act]) but did they do a breakdown by gender, because of course all the porno spam seems to be aimed at men, so I would think that they would be affected 20 times as much as women. Perhaps there's a new, untapped spam market: porno for women.

Re:Other remarkable breaking news....

[bcat24]

O RLY?