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Subject:RE: The odds of finding work through job ads From:jenny_berger -at- fairfieldresidential -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:16:45 -0600
Dude...chill. To hear John's description, it sounds like he's got an
opt-in list going and he's using it as he sees fit -- why? -- because the
people who are on it specifically told him they wanted to be on it.
They're only on the list because they know what John will be emailing them
about, when he does email them. I'm sure if they never wanted to see his
email in their inboxes again they'd let him know, and I'm sure John would
do the honorable thing and remove them immediately. But to accuse him of
crimes he hasn't committed is rather uncalled for, doncha think?
Jenny Berger
Technical Writer
Information Systems
Fairfield Residential
"Gary S. Callison" <huey -at- interaccess -dot- com>
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03/18/2003 01:15 PM
Please respond to "Gary S. Callison"
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cc:
Subject: RE: The odds of finding work through job ads
Congrats, you've just described the inherent scalability problem of spam
AND the reason people still do it. With minimal time on the front end, it
becomes as easy to send 100,000 or ten million emails as it is to send 10.
And if you send ten million, and your response rate is a tiny fraction of
a percent, you can still make money doing it. Never mind that you're
stealing resources from the internet at large and poisoning the same well
you drink from - you got your responses, so why do you care?
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