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March 30, 2004
Comment Spam
This is something that completely baffles me. I've been getting a lot of comment spams recently, and it just doesn't seem like this is a worthwhile business move. I mean, sure, it's automated and therefore doesn't actually require human effort to spam blogs, but who buys [penis, hair, breast] growth pills from the internet? And if you're so low that you're actually going to buy these products from the internet, who in their right mind would but them from spam. And if you're willing to buy from spam, who on this planet would buy from a comment in a blog owned by some person they don't even know? Heck, we all get enough email ads for viagra and propecia and vaginia or whatever new nickname modern science has come up with (they all sound like Cirque du Soleil names to me) in our inboxes every day; who needs to leave the comfort of their email to go scouring blogs for viagra? Is this viagra somehow better? Do rednecks respect spammers who post in blogs because they don't trust the ones who email them directly? Who knows what people are thinking... oh well. Just a rant.
Posted by dminky at March 30, 2004 01:02 PM
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I saw something that said around 4/10 of one percent (that's 0.4%) of spam sent out receives a reply.. and that's enough for the average spammer to afford to put a Porche in front of their great big manor house. I'm not kidding.
AOL is raffling off a Porche confiscated from a spammer right now, actually.
Posted by: Eric at March 30, 2004 08:15 PM
I've heard that, too... but comment spam?
I mean, it's low enough to buy drugs from your email... but to find a comment on someone's blog and be like, "Woah, Viagra! I can't find that *anywhere* else!" That's low...
Posted by: Matt at March 30, 2004 08:18 PM