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Subject: Re: [AN1x] Hey

From: cavey@...
Date: 2006-02-22

Hi Tom,

On Wed Feb 22 2006, instrujunkie <instrujunkie@...> wrote:
> As far as I know there's only VERY little sold by spam at all. But

It's the big numbers. If 1% of the people buy something from a message
which has been spammed 1 million times.. It still is a nice figure of
10.000 people buying something.

Considering spamming is relatively cheap (hear say, can't verify :P) and
easily done... just a 1% response is enough to keep those people up and
running.

Ok, so maybe I'm of the mark with my 1% guesstimate, but still, the
secret lies in the numbers.

What I did find funny from that message though, that it came from a
yahoo address. Ofcourse, it could be faked (haven't dug into the
mailheaders yet), but still, it shows a nice double standard by yahoo.
For some reason my mail address keeps bouncing because the domain gets
blacklisted, but alas, yahoo is sending/relaying their own spam, whilst
prohibiting messages reaching me.

> Tom
>

Cheers ;)

Gerald