[Info-vax] SFF and MIME

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Wilm Boerhout wrote:
> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply mentioned  on 12-12-2009 18:34:
>> In article <00A95E89.B97DE850 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
>> @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>>> One man's spam is another man's advertising. 
>>
>> If it is unsolicited, and it is bulk, then it is spam.  Content 
>> doesn't matter.  (In practice, it might be more useful to filter based 
>> on content; it is not immediately clear if the email in question is 
>> bulk or not.  However, no spammer can justify his spam by saying that 
>> the content must have been of at least passing interest to (some of) 
>> the recipients.  If it is unsolicited, and it is bulk, then it is spam.
> 
> This is an interesting pov. Spam only "works" because 0.00001% of a 
> large number of addressees actually "buys" the "product". That is why 
> the sender is willing to pay for the advertising: (s)he makes a profit. 
> If it were unprofitable, it would disappear. Hence, marketing budget.
> 
> /W
> 
> PS I have so many requests for the Rolex that I will auction it. Watch 
> this space...
> 

There is almost always someone who will send money to a spammer for 
whatever the spammer is selling.  If a spam reaches 25,000,000 people,
the spammer will get enough customers to make a profit.  There's always 
someone dumb enough to think that a spammer's product will actually do 
something useful and will be worth what it costs.

The Pharma spam seems to have died out.  I think that the FDA cracked 
down on the internet pharmacies.  Or maybe the idiots died from taking 
the junk they bought!