[24hoursupport] Re: Spam and other garbage
- From: "Tina" <cfunk@xxxxxxx>
- To: <24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:35:31 -0500
I know I have a friend that would save the viruses sent to him, and reply to
the ad and send them the virus.. I guess that is what you call
"recycling".. LOL
----- Original Message -----
From: "William B. Lurie" <billurie@xxxxxxxx>
To: <24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: [24hoursupport] Re: Spam and other garbage
>
> You're partly right and partly wrong, Ron. The junk
> peddlers must be making money, and it's the power
> of mass advertising that does it. Advertisers don't
> give a damn whom they insult or annoy or offend as
> long as they turn a profit. Look at any 1/2 hour TV show.
>
> But half of my incoming garbage has virus content, and I
> don't see any way they can turn a profit just by lousing
> up a lot of computer systems. To me it's just graffiti.....
> ugly, annoying, low-class, useless. When they get bored,
> they'll go find some other venue.....I recommend bungee-
> jumping, or better yet, Russian Roulette.
>
> Bill Lurie
>
> Ron Allen wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Tricia,
> >
> > This is perhaps the most infuriating thing about spam to
> > me. The jerks that spam wouldn't do it if they weren't
> > actually making money doing it. Therefore, there must be
> > total idiots in this world that are responding to spam and
> > making it worthwhile for the spammers to do. Those people
> > are as much a part of the problem as the spammers
> > themselves, maybe more so, as far as I'm concerned.
> >
> > If people would simply never, ever respond to spam it
> > would go away. As long as there are even a few fools that
> > will buy the junk the spammers peddle, we all have to
> > suffer. We're all held hostage by the (very) lowest common
> > denominator among us.
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:32:58 -0700
> > "Tricia" <Arnaidat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >One thing that the intranet software services at my
> > >company did was to
> > >screen offensive words in the subject. I guess the email
> > >software can't do
> > >that since there my be some people who fall for this junk
> > >and actually want
> > >the communication.
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