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| the purpose of spam? For some time, I've been trying to figure out the reasoning behind why Spammers do what they do, and I can't find a logical reason for so much spam being out there. I'm certainly not interested in any viagra or crap like that that's all spam seems to be.
However, I've accepted that spam is a necessary evil of email, and I'd rather get spam than potentially miss important legit email caught by spam filters. That said I'm amazed Gmail works so well, why doesn't Yahoo and other providers filter as well as Gmail? | |
| said by kd6cae:For some time, I've been trying to figure out the reasoning behind why Spammers do what they do, and I can't find a logical reason for so much spam being out there. I'm certainly not interested in any viagra or crap like that that's all spam seems to be. Spam is little different than Direct Mail in terms of the anticipated response. What I mean is: people who conduct a Direct Mail (junk snail mail) campaign don't expect more than a one-or-two percent response to what they send out (i.e one or two replies for every *hundred* envelopes they mail out).
But even with all the expenses involved in printing and postage, that meager-looking one-or-two percent response rate makes for a profitable enterprise.
The attraction of spam is that all of the overhead associated with printing and postage is done away with. To say nothing of a greater reach via dictionary attacks.
And, no, I'm not saying that I endorse this. I'm just telling you that those Viagra and "boost your equipment" mails aren't necessarily directed at you, but at the one (maybe two) guy(s) out of 100 who *do* respond to that kind of crap. | |
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