[Stoat]

One naturally wonders what the statistical correlation is between spam-responders and 0bamavoters......

[SandWMan]

So, one in six are totally brain dead morons...I figured the ratio would be much higher...

[Drango]

Acting on spam? I’d pay good money for someone to beat the ever loving $#!t out of spammers. Post the results on UTube. Vigilantes at work!

[Constitution Day]

And we call these people...IDIOTS.

[a fool in paradise]

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[Billthedrill]

Of the 350 million messages pitching pharmaceuticals, 10,522 users visited the advertised site, but only 28 people tried to make a purchase, a response rate of .0000081 percent. Still, that rate is high enough to potentially generate up to $3.5 million in annual revenue, they concluded.

And that's why they do it. I would have laughed at the idea of a .0000081% response generating a profit, which is why I'm not a millionaire.

[Stoat]

IT security ping

[Puppage]

One naturally wonders what the statistical correlation is between spam-responders and 0bamavoters......

That was my intital reaction.

[Red in Blue PA]

I would have guessed 1 in 5000.

Obama voters once again skew the results.

[ShadowAce]

[DYngbld]

I can't remember the last time I checked my email. I get so much spam I quit downloading my email. My work account gets no spam so I use that for important stuff.
I guess it is time to get a new email address, and retire the old one.

If you send me your bank account number and $100 I will deposit $15 mill it so I can illegally transfer funds into the us, don't worry it is not really illegal, because I am just going to keep the $100 and you will never be bothered by me again.

[COBOL2Java]

Time to appoint a “Spam Czar”!

[exist]

Unbelievable.

[Mr Rogers]

Based on the spam email titles I receive, that should mean about 1 in 6 are walking tripods...

[mmichaels1970]

About one in six consumers have at some time acted on a spam message

Seems misleading to me. Not that I argue with the ultimate point, but what does "at some time" prove? If I opened a spam in my AOL mail in 1997 and never opened one since, do I count? If somebody opens a spam once and henceforth learns their lesson, their "YES" is still be counted here and they're still basically being branded a "moron".

"The best thing a user can do is patch their machine religiously," O'Reirdan said. "It's incredible easy to do."

Until you wake up the next day and a program that worked just yesterday suddenly doesn't work anymore. A techie knows to take a look at their update history. A grandma doesn't.

[3niner]

[TruthSetsUFree]

"One naturally wonders what the statistical correlation is between spam-responders and 0bamavoters......"

It has to take a certain low level of something - common sense? IQ? discernment? intelligence? - to not be able to see through the scams in spam OR through the lies and bias of the mainstream media.

To me they both seem so blatantly obvious. It's scary that so many are not more discerning.

[Still Thinking]

One naturally wonders what the statistical correlation is between spam-responders and 0bamavoters......

Well, given that his campaign technically qualified as spam itself, I'm going to say 1:1!

[ApplegateRanch]

When I want a laugh, or am curious about a new pitch, my ISP’s mail server has a quarentine area where I can look at, but not access, the message...minus links & graphics.

Active firewall, anti-malware, anti-adware, anti virus, all with power-up updates; secondary removal tools; ISP filters and scans both incoming & outgoing email before I scan it coming in.

I consider myself “lucky” because I only get a hundred or so spams a week. About 0.5% are in the spam box by error, because a known sender is using a new address or some such.

Then again, in nearly 20 years of Web access, I strip addys off of forewards before re-sending & use BCC for everyone I’m sending to; I have never visited a chat room; don’t have Facebook, etc; don’t hit the porn sites...Okay, okay, once in a great while a strange picture pops up on a Google image search that I accidentaly click on because the cat jumps into my lap and jiggles my mouse hand.

All of that is beyond the Obamites, judging by what I get from the few I do know, compared to my Conseravtive correspondents. I quit sending one very dear old friend imagess, because, after 5 years of trying to remotely help her with the problem, all I still get back is, “I can’t see the picture. Please resend it.”

Before my ISP got “spamming” complaints from AOL about me, I used to hit the “reply all” button, and send them all the good news that Little Billy is now 30 years old, fully recovered, and does not want any more “get well” cards, complete with a link to the appropriate Snopes page.

[Bikkuri]

lmao... so agreed ;)