SPAM - its not just for dinner anymore

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SPAM - its not just for dinner anymore

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Does spamming ever actually work?

It drives me nuts I get about 100 spam email a day because my email address is webmaster@mycompany

Spammers will ruin honest email marketing campaigns to companies own customers in the future, heck even present.

I can't really see laws being passed that can handle all the variables of spamming.

What if you have a newsletter for 100 people and someone puts in their friends email address and you send out your newsletter and the person reports you for spamming? (obviously you can program and mail() function to validate, but you get my drift)


I just don't see anything on the horizon to stop spammers, dont' get me started on pop up ads or those damn websites that disable you from using your browsers BACK button, ugh :)
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Post by dusty »

proxomitron works pretty good to stop the pop ups. and spam isn't so bad if you fry it and eat it like a hamburger.
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Yes, spam works, but at the same time, what a lot of people consider spam isn't really spam. It's advertising that you opted to get when you signed up for a certain site that sells your emails.

But yes, spam does work.
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thats what I'm saying Jason, spam to one isn't spam to another so I don't see a way to legally deal with it, although what I've adapted to is to have two email accounts, one for my friends, family, important info, and another for newsletters, spam, etc. my hotmail account gets about 75 spam emails a day.

jason is selling our email addresses to porn sites :(
(at least make em good sites, Jason :twisted: )
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jason is selling our email addresses to porn sites
No, never to porn sites.

Now online casino sites..that's a different story...muhahahaha :twisted: :twisted:
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no way, I'd rather have porn spam :lol:

I wonder if the company that makes real SPAM have seen sales increases or decreases since SPAM became a huge internet buzzword?
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The Screen Savers (techtv) had a poll on that one day, and they had a response of like 99% No, and 1% yes.
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i watch the screen savers quite often, it sure beats stupid sitcoms(except for seinfeld and the simpsons) :)

morgan is hot :twisted:
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JPlush76 wrote:i watch the screen savers quite often, it sure beats stupid sitcoms(except for seinfeld and the simpsons) :)

morgan is hot :twisted:
megan is hotter ;)
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Post by Takuma »

JPlush76 wrote:no way, I'd rather have porn spam :lol:

I wonder if the company that makes real SPAM have seen sales increases or decreases since SPAM became a huge internet buzzword?
You dirty person :lol:
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phice wrote: megan is hotter ;)
you're crazy man :)

besides Megan announced she is pregnant
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You guys are all crazy just go through each one of them and click unsubscribe if the link is not there that's a ILLEGAL spam mail and just block the sender and delte it :o
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Takuma wrote:You guys are all crazy just go through each one of them and click unsubscribe if the link is not there that's a ILLEGAL spam mail and just block the sender and delte it :o
If only it worked liked that.
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ahhh to be young again, lol
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It worked for me :D
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