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Originally posted by Mishi
What about those of us who run a business online and need our email to be available to any and everyone who might wish to contact us? Should we make our potential customers jump through hoops just so we can avoid spam? I've gone so far as to unlink my email (inconvenient for my clients) or use the hahahahahahahahahaha "trick" to "hide" my email from 'bots. I use MailWasher and still I get hundreds of spam emails a day. Yeah, I "just delete them", but my time is valuable to me.
I don't currently own a home; I don't need to refinance. I don't currently own a penis; I don't need to enlarge one. I am not overweight and in need of Phentermine. I'm perfectly happy with my auto insurance policy, I don't believe that the right sunglasses or a $160 "Rolex" will make me cool. I am not even remotely in the target audience for a good 95% or more of the spam I receive. The spammers are wasting their time and mine. In addition, they are making it virtually impossible for legitimate email campaigns to be as succesful as they should. (See all kinds of legislation, pending or otherwise, for example.)
I 'ate spam!
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God, that was..... beautifully put.
I don't have a problem with "mailers" that use legit opt-in lists... "legit" being the key word there. If they offer a working "remove" link, I have no problem with them at all.
It is the flagrant spammers that do NOT operate from such lists that I have a problem with. I pray that those types be caught and punsished severely, and made to share a cell with bubba, the big sweaty gronk in for murder who likes to bend over spammers and give them what they deserve... repeatedly.
If you're a spammer, know two things:
Your days are numbered,
and you are an asshole-dwelling tick.