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11-14-2002, 07:23 AM
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Spam is scary...
Heard a report on morning radio this morning about spam. There's a woman who owns a company that sends out spam advertisement emails. I think its called Research Data Solutions. She has sent out as many as 60,000,000 (that's 60 million) such emails, in the course of a single month. She has also figured out that if she gets just 100 responses for every 10,000,000 emails she sends out, she makes a profit.
Compare that to companies that send out catalogs in the mail and such. They expect to make sales on between 1 and 4% of the catalogs they mail out. She can make a profit on only a 0.00001% return. ...She expects to make about $250,000 this year!!!  :huh: :huh: :huh: :huh: :huh:There is NO justice in this world!! 
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11-14-2002, 08:34 AM
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I am so sick of spam. They really need to pass some laws against it because its %##$ anoying.
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11-14-2002, 08:50 AM
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They need an e-mail list like PA's "No Call List" so that if you tell them to unsubscribe you and they continuously send you more crapmail it's THEM who gets in trouble...
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11-14-2002, 08:57 AM
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The good news is that apparently 26 states have passed legislature limiting in one way or another spam emails. However, there is as of yet nothing that has passed on a federal level… let’s hope that changes soon!
On some levels I should be happy for this woman, single mom entrepreneur, blah blah blah, but the idea that she gets to pull in a quarter million for pissing people off in this manner… that is such bullshit. Nobody ever said capitalism was perfect, I guess 
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11-14-2002, 09:21 AM
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yeah, i read an article about her on slashdot.org yesterday. I don't have a problem with her wanting to make some money and I don't mind the spam because I filter it all out (3 years of defining filtering rules for outlook and now yahoo! mail has made my inbox 95% spam free). Hell, I would do what she was doing if I knew how and had the money to start the business.
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11-14-2002, 09:24 AM
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ok, just had an idea. this is very similar to my tactic for dealing with junk mail (which is to put as much stuff into their pre-paid return envelope to make it as heavy as possible and send it back to them. Costs them an arm and a leg and is just a plain hassle for them) But, with the spam thing, someone should find this woman's e-mail, snail mail, and phone number and everytime you get a peice of spam send her something back and gice her a call and tell her to fuck off. Cuold be fun if you really have the drive to do it.
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11-14-2002, 03:00 PM
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