Stay at home mom admits to be spammer

[RawAlex]

Glowlite, well thought out, but I have to disagree with your concepts.

Budweiser and all the other companies that buy ad space on TV are not spamming. When you watch TV, you are accepting a contract that effectively says "in order to pay for this program, we sell ad space. If you want to watch the free TV show that cost millions of dollars to producer and distribute, you have to accept advertising. If you don't want advertising, pay your sat or cable company for HBO, which will cost you $x per month so that you don't have to look at commercial ads".

It is the same deal as broadcast radio - they play music, and in return, they hope you will also listen to the commercials that come up in between songs or programming. If you don't want the ads, call XM or whoever, and they will gladly take $X per month so that you don't have to be burdened by the commercials.

The internet works in reverse.

We pay for our net connection, we pay for the computer and software to access it, and spammers get to send shit to us for free (or such a low cost per piece that it is effectively free). They don't pay us to look at their ads, they don't give us a product (tv show, radio show, movie) to enjoy, they just jump right in and interrupt our lives and say "fuck you, here is my ad anyway".

Again, if I only received a couple of unwanted emails I day I wouldn't complain. But I have personally deleted 1000+ pieces today (post filters, time to add some new ones, I guess), which, even at 5 seconds a piece, it means I spent more than an hour hitting the fucking delete button just to get rid of shit.

Can you imagine having people come to your front door every 20 seconds all day, ringing your doorbell every 87 seconds? That it what spam it like to me. Every 87 seconds on average I get another spam that makes it's way into my inbox, requiring me to look to see if it is valid or not. (I got 5 more pieces in the time it took me to write this post).

All day, all night, without interruption, every 87 seconds your doorbell gets rung, or your phone rings, or someone just barges into your office and tries to sell your a stupid fucking rip off $20 rolex knockoff for $300.

No censorship - if you don't have my permission to spam me and waste my time, don't waste my time.

Alex

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Originally Posted by RawAlex

Budweiser and all the other companies that buy ad space on TV are not spamming. When you watch TV, you are accepting a contract that effectively says "in order to pay for this program, we sell ad space. If you want to watch the free TV show that cost millions of dollars to producer and distribute, you have to accept advertising. If you don't want advertising, pay your sat or cable company for HBO, which will cost you $x per month so that you don't have to look at commercial ads".

I saw something on CNN the other day about sponsors thinking outside the box to reach consumers that use TIVO, etc. to block commercials.

Apparently the Kentucky Fried commercial where 2 guys are having chicken and the other guys has noodles has a hidden discount code buried in it. Now you gotta watch the commercial in slow motion to get the freebie.

Another $$$ consideration on email spam is it is taking up something like 30-40% of the internet overhead by chewing up bankbone BW, etc.