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[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <jcdu6g$kot$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
(Michael Moroney) writes: 

> You're forgetting Rule 3 of spam: "Spammers are stupid."  They won't
> consider whether the recipients are favorable to spam, esp. if they don't
> spam themselves but sell lists to other spammers.  I don't think any
> address harvester will knowingly bypass a source of addresses, but these
> days, I assume many spammers simply don't know about usenet, or only know
> of it through Google Groups (which hides addresses).

I don't think they are stupid.  Morally reprehensible, yes.  The whole 
idea of spam is that one sends many emails since only a few respond, 
but those few make it worth the trouble.  However, I can imagine that 
customers of spammers pay more for "high-quality" (i.e. likely to 
respond) addresses.