Why Spammers Spam
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Why Spammers Spam
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#2"With all that said and done... (and with this "good" blog now blocked by both Reddit AND Hacker News) i’m turning to the dark side."
I'm a little confused by that statement. It doesn't seem like it is blocked.
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#3Google will punish bad spam blogs eventually. But they're also have a tendency to punish good blogs accidentally as well. If the probability of being punished for being good was near zero, I bet there'd be less spammers
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#4"With all that said and done... (and with this "good" blog now blocked by both Reddit AND Hacker News) i’m turning to the dark side." I'm a little confused by that statement. It doesn't seem like it is blocked.
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xnerdr
It appears his old username is/was.
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#5"If it was not of value, it would not be profitable and hence, would not exist."
Thievery, blackmail, extortion, etc. are all profitable, and yet, I would argue not of value. So is legally tricking people into paying for services they do not want. This is a terrible sentiment that can be used to justify any number of shady dealings. But it's also housed in an incoherent paragraph where the author briefly argues both sides, so I have no idea whether he actually agrees with the above statement or not.
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#6"If it was not of value, it would not be profitable and hence, would not exist." Thievery, blackmail, extortion, etc. are all profitable, and yet, I would argue not of value. So is legally tricking people into paying for services they do not want. This is a terrible sentiment that can be used to justify any number of shady dealings. But it's also housed in an incoherent paragraph where the author briefly argues both…
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, No property or person is being harmed with spam. Time is wasted, yes. But no crime is being committed in the normal sense of the word. To compare spam to thievery, blackmail and extortion (where their is a removal of property of threats to a person) is not a very good analogy and I think taking things a bit too far. It's closer to aggresively handing out flyers on the street and possibly a case of harrassment.
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#7What exactly is a spam blog? Is it the same with arbitrage? How does it know what content to display (as the author says it should be automated)?
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#8It must work, because I'd wager that there are more spam blogs/sites than good blogs/sites. God help you if you try to find legitimate information on health or insurance.
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#9"If it was not of value, it would not be profitable and hence, would not exist." Thievery, blackmail, extortion, etc. are all profitable, and yet, I would argue not of value. So is legally tricking people into paying for services they do not want. This is a terrible sentiment that can be used to justify any number of shady dealings. But it's also housed in an incoherent paragraph where the author briefly argues both…
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, No property or person is being harmed with spam. Time is wasted, yes. But no crime is being committed in the normal sense of the word. To compare spam to thievery, blackmail and extortion (where their is a removal of property of threats to a person) is not a very good analogy and I think taking things a bit too far. It's closer to aggresively handing out flyers on the street and…
Time is money.
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#10"If it was not of value, it would not be profitable and hence, would not exist." Thievery, blackmail, extortion, etc. are all profitable, and yet, I would argue not of value. So is legally tricking people into paying for services they do not want. This is a terrible sentiment that can be used to justify any number of shady dealings. But it's also housed in an incoherent paragraph where the author briefly argues both…
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, No property or person is being harmed with spam. Time is wasted, yes. But no crime is being committed in the normal sense of the word. To compare spam to thievery, blackmail and extortion (where their is a removal of property of threats to a person) is not a very good analogy and I think taking things a bit too far. It's closer to aggresively handing out flyers on the street and…
I would disagree. Phishing spam exists in an effort to steal or otherwise harm the recipients who are tricked into responding. Prescription drug spam can tempt those who may have a moment of weakness into breaking the law, and they could possibly purchase counterfeit goods that can directly harm the person. Money is spent by companies who have to either self maintain or pay a service to maintain a spam filter. I occasionally miss important emails that are incorrectly filtered as spam, one was an offer for a side job that would have paid me real money.
Spam is harmful, plain and simple.