Spam and junk mail, have you ever?

[skydiver30960 0]

I love yahoo for no other reason than the fact that they do a great job at filtering the spam out of my email. Not a plug for yahoo in particular, I know that lots of other email services (dz.com too!) do that for us. But what amazes me is the sheer quantity of spam and junk mail we get every day.

I understand the idea of "you'll never catch a fish if you don't cast a line"... and I also understand that spamming somebody is basically a free and low-cost way to reach tons of people but there is still some kind of effort involved to make it happen. Junk mail is worse because you as the advertiser would actually need to print all that crap and then pay postage (albeit a very reduced bulk rate) to deliver it to my mailbox.

What amazes me about it is that I cannot recall EVER in my life purchasing a product or service that I heard about on spam or junk mail.

Am I the exception? How many people that you know have done so? Has anyone here ever bought something worthwhile off of spam or junk mail? Do you even open your spam folder, EVER? How can this be a profitable solution for ANYBODY in any kind of business, legitimate or otherwise?

The only possible exception I can think of is credit card applications. Americans are so credit-addicted that I can see where it (unfortunately) makes sense to carpet the world with credit card applications because if you DO respond, then they can bend you over and impale you with baseball-bat-sized interest charges. (can you tell I hate credit cards, too?)

I used to have the same feelings about telemarketing, but since I got all my numbers on the no-call list my life has been much more tranquil in that regard. Is there a "no junk mail" list?

Thanks for listening;

elvisio "my bluk mail folder gets more action than a two dollar whore" Rodriguez

[AirMail 0]

The reason you get so much SPAM is because in the month of August over 90% of all Internet mail was SPAM. That statistic was published in September by Frontbridge, an anti-Spam company.

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[adamjenner 0]

i once got spam that had the subject "get more ass than a toilet seat" hahaha, i'm sorry but with something as catchy as that...i just had to click

[crwmike 0]

Since Oct 1st, I've received 10,982 SPAMS and junk emails, with my spam filters catching over 90% of it.

Out of principle, I would never buy anything marketed in this manner.

Michael

[Clownburner 0]

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The reason you get so much SPAM is because in the month of August over 90% of all Internet mail was SPAM. That statistic was published in September by Frontbridge, an anti-Spam company.

Of course, they're selling anti-spam products so they're bound to say that, aren't they? The reality is that internet email is so de-centralized nobody really knows how much of it is SPAM. But I'd believe that close to 90% is right.

I take a lot of precautions with my addresses and still get about 200 SPAMs a day, compared to about 40 actual mail; 99.995% of that is caught by the extremely complex multi-layer filtering system I use, but that still means about 83% of my mail is SPAM.

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