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   Boilerbob, 3 Feb 2005 @ 6:43am

   
   

   Two minutes a day!

   Two minutes a day is causing a giant problem?? If everyone only spend 2 minutes, I doubt that we would have all this headlines about spam. Without filtering tools it would take hours, that's a problem.
   
   I would also like to see a breakout between legitiment companies and the various suspect spams. I've bought a lot online over the years so I get a fair amount of commercial emails from retailers like wal-mart.com and etoys.com to name a few. I can live with those. I get 2 or 3 a day and yes sometimes I read those. 2 more emails a day from companies I trust to deliver products from now doesn't drain my time. It's like ads in a newspaper, if I want to read them they are there. If I want to read the news, I can ignore the ads.
   
   What I have a problem with is the thousands of refiance, viagra, and porn that I also get. These are the time wasters as I would never read or buy from these. I would like to see a survey based on who buys V!5GR5

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   thecaptain, 3 Feb 2005 @ 8:21am

   
   

   easy fix...but morally, ethically, and legally tro

   Become a spammer yourself, but instead of selling anything, just mimic other spam and change all the links to infect with various machine destroying viruses.
   
   Eventually people WILL learn not to read or click on spam links.
   
   I'm not talking about spyware or viruses that run in the background, I'm talking viruses that focus on knocking the PC out of commission.

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   drteknikal (profile), 3 Feb 2005 @ 9:55am

   
   

   the 4% solution

   This is bad. Spamming is much cheaper than direct mail, where a 3% return is considered great. So if it's much cheaper, and more effective, I suspect that only 4% of my mail will be legitimate soon.

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   Stephen Paulger, 3 Feb 2005 @ 6:41pm

   
   

   Re: the 4% solution

   That's 4% of the surveryed in their lives have bought from spam. Not that the surveyed respond to 4% of the spam they get. The problem is that it's cheaper for them to get a 0.003% response from 1 million emails than for a 3% response from 1,000 mail-shots.

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   Precision Blogger, 4 Feb 2005 @ 9:18am

   
   

   Find a list of people who buy from spam!

   Spammers MUST make lists of people who actually buy as a result of spam ads. The lists are out there somewhere. Hackers ought to be able to find them!
   - precision blogger
   

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