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To: supercat
Where's the profit in targeting advertising to people who by their actions make quite clear they have no positive interest in it?

Given how cheap it is to spam millions of e-mail addresses, even if a miniscule proportion of the recipients bite the bait, they probably get enough return on their investment to warrant it. IMHO.

5 posted on 04/29/2003 6:04:29 PM PDT by AM2000
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To: AM2000
Given how cheap it is to spam millions of e-mail addresses, even if a miniscule proportion of the recipients bite the bait, they probably get enough return on their investment to warrant it. IMHO.

It's easy to spam millions of people who don't go through any effort to avoid being spammed. Going after those who try to avoid spam is more difficult. Why make the extra effort to spam such people, when by their actions they've shown that they're not the target audience?

There are only two explanations I can figure:

Would you care to offer another explanation?
6 posted on 04/29/2003 6:15:43 PM PDT by supercat (TAG--you're it!)
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