Re: [cobalt-users] Who's SPAMing me now?

[Chuck <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Kris Dahl wrote:

> on 6/20/00 11:01 PM, Roger Weiss at CobaltList@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Make sure you report this to their upstream. I have seen them with three
> > different up streams this year. Eventually they will get the message if they
> > are cut off enough.
> 
> This is what I can't seem to figure out:
> Does unsolicited email actually work?  If all you do is piss everyone off,
> have to switch ISPs all the time, etc., etc.  Who the hell is actually
> responding to the SPAM and *buying* what they are shoveling.  I for one have
> never purchased something that was solicited to me in a UCE.

Mea culpa. I actually found one spam in my life useful. I advertized phone
batteries, and I could find the vibrating batteries for my Nokia while no
one else seemed to have them in stock. 

However, given how much nuisance spam is, now I just automatically delete
any. So will you give me your forgiveness?