From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 22:24:12 MDT
At 02:58 AM 10/2/02 +0000, naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) [and
others earlier] wrote things like:
>1. Spam works.
>2. People think it works.
I'm guessing that it's the latter more than the former. Where spam differs
from biological viral or memetic or computer viral infection is that it
*doesn't* autoreplicate via its hosts. Someone--lots of someones--has to
pay to send this crap out in an endlessly renewed flood. I was hoping for
some more precise sense of how much it *does* cost a spammeister to blast
the world with **GROW YOUR DICK REALLY ENORMOUS AND MAKE BIG $$$$ AT
HOME!!!** Each day presumably someone is going to the computer and checking
the in-box for BIG $$$$ from dupes, paying for the machine the @list is on,
for the connectivity, etc. Maybe it's so laughably cheap that 1000 people
or fewer around the world think, `Hey, why the hell not give this spamming
caper a go? Well, now that's done for the day I can go out back and bite
the head off another chicken.'
Damien Broderick
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