February 20, 2003
Notes To Spammers
#1: The likelihood of my buying anything important, say a mortgage, from someone whose email is "ChocolateAdonis" is minimal.
#2: Katie is a DOG. If you cc: her on something you send to me, there's a very high probability that I will ignore it.
#3: How could you possibly know that I want to make money? What if I'm the kind of guy who says, "Heeyyyy... Disco Steve lives by disco alone."? You've completely wasted your time and mine by sending email based on an incorrect assumption.
#4: What exactly goes on at ATMs in Nigeria? 'cause things are certainly chaotic in the back office and boardrooms.
#5: Please address any comments on these comments to chocolateadonis@happyfunpundit.com. Thank you.
Posted by Steve at February 20, 2003 08:02 PM
But whenever I receive message with subjects like "Pre-approved credit card!!!" or "Enlarge your *whatever* Clinically proven!!" I feel like those Internet marketing weasels really care about me. :P
>> The likelihood of my buying anything important...(From a junk message)... is minimal.<<
There's the problem. Minimal is still too much. It only takes one idiot out of a million messages to reply to this junk to make it worthwhile to the junk mailers. (I don't call it Spam to not defame the fine products of the Hormel Meat Co.)
We've got to get ISP's to educate their customers to never respond to unsolicited messages no matter how attractive they sound.
It had to happen, of course. This was in my inbox today:
>Dear chocolateadonis@happyfunpundit.com ,
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>You don't need to spend hundreds of dollars on a >DVD burner to copy or backup DVD's.
