Friday, February 20, 2004
Sex, drugs and cans of spam
Offers to help you use the porn flooding into your inbox beats even the porn itself, new work shows. Spam accounts for more than half the email traffic. We don't like it but too many people respond to it and so it becomes a viable business model. Even your mobile is not safe. And though fines have been handed out recently, most notably for a phone dialing scam, it's still a very cost-effevtive way of selling your product.
I'll publish the results of my brief spam questionnaire shortly, but rest assured that a few new ideas are being considered to fight it.
Offers to help you use the porn flooding into your inbox beats even the porn itself, new work shows. Spam accounts for more than half the email traffic. We don't like it but too many people respond to it and so it becomes a viable business model. Even your mobile is not safe. And though fines have been handed out recently, most notably for a phone dialing scam, it's still a very cost-effevtive way of selling your product.
I'll publish the results of my brief spam questionnaire shortly, but rest assured that a few new ideas are being considered to fight it.
(c) 2003-2005 Russell Beale
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