i dont understand SPAM....

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Do they have a pill to make it taste like vanilla pudding yet?

[fastpat]

Originally posted by masraum
I'm not sure I get this either. I'm betting it's a bunch of 16 year olds that think they need to be painting with the stuff.

As long as fire isn't shooting out the end of my gun, I'm not sure I care, hollow points, bird shot, wad cutters, blanks, whatever. As long as I'm shooting it's all good.

Yeah, but what am I going to do with this four foot hardon?

[rick-l]

Does anyone know how Yahoo spam filter works? I have had this e-mail addr (rocketmail) for at least 14 years and I wanted to see how much spam I get per month. It seems to have stopped at 12,815

[cashflyer]

Originally posted by mjohnson
Sometimes, maybe after a cocktail, they seem almost poetic: "Washing Monkey Toilet" or "Turning Lecturn Really"

Sorta trippy...

Sounds like a new PPOT game to me. Here is a selection from my spambox. Each line is an actual subject line from a message:

be it meteoritic
a yoke from thy high places of them
to bante
u combat

I or triumphal
In or manipulable
to panama
his grandpa so nuptual


It's a masterpiece. I call it, "Fighting a Horny Old Man."

[fastpat]

This morning in the spam box:
1. As troy is seismograph
2. Which propagandist no basketball
3. was twombly on ferment
4. Not by expiable
5. A at wage

And of course several dozen offers such as:
1. Victoria's Secret $1000 Gift Card Confirmation #LWDGSD098
2. Meet HOT local Latinos in your area for FREE ...

[Jandrews]

Here's a dumb question...what is the purpose of spam? Is it all about marketing? It seems that some of it doesn't even contain a marketing message. If it is marketing, are legitimate companies actually sending this crap? Just curious about why and who actually sends spam.


JA

[cashflyer]

It's about large number marketing theory.

It is estimated that there are over 1 billion internet users worldwide, of which North America makes up over 200 million.

Any good mailing list will have a range of a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of addresses.

Let's say that you send out 100,000 spams with a product that profits you by $10. It costs about 4cents per email if you use a service, or less if you have the software to do it in house. So at 4c, you spend $4k to send these emails.

Let's say you get only 1 sucker to reply for every hundred emails sent (1% response). Let's narrow it down and say out of those 1000 respondants, only half buy your product.

You spent $4k on email advertising, and profited $10*500 buyers - which equates to a $1000 profit.

If you had purchased your own software, your profit is even higher since you would only pay a license fee of ~$0.001 per email.

[notfarnow]

Originally posted by cashflyer
Sounds like a new PPOT game to me. Here is a selection from my spambox. Each line is an actual subject line from a message:

be it meteoritic
a yoke from thy high places of them
to bante
u combat

I or triumphal
In or manipulable
to panama
his grandpa so nuptual


It's a masterpiece. I call it, "Fighting a Horny Old Man."

Funny! This morning I have:

"Farmer spunks on grandmother"