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Date:      Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:41:24 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        FreeBSD-Chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Scary e-mail ...
Message-ID:  <19970804084124.LM24582@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199708040358.UAA00470@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Aug 3, 1997 20:58:11 -0700
References:  <199708040358.UAA00470@rah.star-gate.com>

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As Amancio Hasty wrote:

> I didn't know that my e-mail address was so cheap  :(

Well, because it probably has at best a negative marketing effect at
all, i suppose.  So now, the spammers try to convince their
`customers' with the word `million'.  At least, it sounds good, and if
the sales figures afterwards go up by 5 pieces per annum, they could
claim that that's 5 ppm `success rate'. :)

(It's perhaps actually that the sales figures would have gone up by 10
per annum, but 5 of these people have been scared away by the spam.
So the actual effect is -5 ppm.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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