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Confessions of a retired spammer
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Watching a commercial takes no physical effort. Deleting a spam email that gets through your filter does. Its the American way
Thing is though, if I'm watching TV on a commercial channel I expect to see adverts. After all, they help to pay for whatever programme I happen to be watching at the time, and let's be honest some of them are very entertaining.
However, when I'm at my computer checking my email I'm not wanting unsolicited, unwanted messages trying to flog me dodgy drugs or suspect software, or that is trying to scam me by trying to relieve me of my bank account details. There's also the fact that TV advertising is regulated and has to adhere to standards and guidelines *often illegal spam email doesn't.
Theres the difference. The television program I'm trying to watch is being supported by the commercials. The email I'm trying to access and read is being hindered by spam.
Also, the ads I see on tv, at least the channels I watch, are not 90% full of ads on how to make my **** bigger to do better in bed, or to get Viagra for 90% off or "don't let these hot girls be alone". That is my problem with Spam, it's wretched stuff to have on my computer, and most of it is garbled words anyway, something that TV ads don't do. Not that I'm a fan of either.
I've already confessed, in another thread, to being a shoplifter and to being in jail three times. And you want MORE confessions!?
Sorry, but if I'm a master spammer, it's only in the forum-posting sense.
I read that article earlier, and i'm scratching my head wondering why i'm still working in a stupid engineering job.
i should take a couple of years off and be a spammer to fully fund a retirement account.
i should take a couple of years off and be a spammer to fully fund a retirement account.
Not only is the TV show supported by the commercials (and anyway, if you're smart enough to use a spam filter, you're probably smart enough to use commercial advance on a DVR), but the other thing wrong with the analogy to me is that the ratio of reasonably palatable to nonsense TV commercials is much more reasonable than on e-mail. Think about your spam box... most of the junk mail I actually read in there is stuff I subscribed to and could unsubscribe from (e.g. ads from Guess, Bluefly, etc, etc). I put it in my junk box for convenience, but it isn't really the "spam problem."
The actual spam is far more absurd than TV ads, except perhaps in the wee hours. Even the most ridiculous TV ads are not as bad as those creepy ads with misspelled cialis that don't even link to a website or phone number, and are just filled with random junk about enlarging your penis.
I think it's rather like I only really watch primetime TV, and yet I'm getting tons of the equivalent of 3AM commercials for phone sex in my spam box.
The actual spam is far more absurd than TV ads, except perhaps in the wee hours. Even the most ridiculous TV ads are not as bad as those creepy ads with misspelled cialis that don't even link to a website or phone number, and are just filled with random junk about enlarging your penis.
I think it's rather like I only really watch primetime TV, and yet I'm getting tons of the equivalent of 3AM commercials for phone sex in my spam box.