As I sat staring at my e-mail inbox, I began to feel deep anal violation. It’s a sad state of affairs when we need to protect our inboxes, blogs, and forums with junk mail filters. Spammers seem to have a misguided delusion that we owe them something and they have the right to defile our property simply because they can. At least with advertising on television, we allow it into our home because we choose to watch television. Instead of being invited into our lives, spammers try to pry their way in like a car jacker and it’s very disconcerting. Maybe Seth Godin should start giving out free copies of his book, Permission Marketing, to current and would-be spammers.
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I hear ya! Between emails, blogs, and forums I spend a lot of time on spam control and I’m tired of it. I doubt the problem will ever go away if people keep buying. All it takes is less than 1% that actually buy from the spam message sent for the “campaign” to be successful so they keep spamming. I don’t know what else could be done, perhaps getting tougher with ISP’s? But with many spam friendly ISP’s in other countries that won’t get us far.
[ March 11th, 2007 at 12:55 am] [ #Link ]