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E-mail spam.
What an awful drag on a wonderful means of communication.
There's a certain kind of "spam" that seems acceptable -- for example, a guy is looking for a new apartment, and e-mails his grad school list-serv to see if anyone has a room opening up between terms.
But what about the worst kind of spam -- the completely unsolicited junk sent by folks who haven't any connection to you, and aren't even selling anything you'd remotely dream of buying? Check your spam folder now. See what I mean? Sending it out must be profitable, or else it wouldn't happen. But I've never even considered purchasing anything solicited in that manner, nor has anyone I know.
So who is it that's buying the stuff advertised in spam e-mail? Anyone out there? You can comment anonymously.
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I don't, but I think it's just the sheer volume at low cost means a 1 in 10,000 response rate raises money. This was the idea behind email stamps.