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The Soapbox: Rants and Commentary:
Spammers Do Know We Hate Them, Right?By Dan O'Leary(dano@cybercomm.net)Something I posted on the ZD Net Web site forum. It amazes me that the spammers continue to flood newsgroups in hopes of making a buck. They do know we hate them, right? What in the world makes some mass-mailing amoeba believe that I want to see 90% of my favorite newsgroups' messages are from some shady business? I hate loading new Usenet messages, then sifting through a dozen repeats of ads for some bogus New York literary agency, questionably-legal pornography pics, 900# service, or the latest incarnation of the make.money.fast pyramid scheme which debuted slightly after the earth cooled. And, Heaven forbid, I venture an actual post (with real content) on one of these groups, and my weekly e-mail spam ratio jumps 40%. Sure, this garbage all goes away with a simple Delete, but I can't be as tolerant as some ZD-Net readers have posted. The cost of the marketing strategies these boneheads with net accounts use is on all our backs in time, network usage, and general net traffic (imagine logging on late Friday night to a spam-free net and experiencing no informational log-jam). It was stopped at the fax machine, it should be stopped at the net level as well, where thousands of people get spammed at the touch of a mouse, the distance to receiver is irrelevant, and the effect is global. |
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