This is new...

It was thus said that the Great Jack Peacock once stated: Having been involved with a spamming incident with a former client of ours (note former - this incident was the final cause of our breaking relationships, but anyway ... ) I was dismayed at the actual positive responce to the spam the client sent out - nearly 40% was positive! Of course, the other 60% made it clear it wasn't appriciated. Snail junk mailers are estatic when they receive a 3% response rate and usually only expect a 1 or 2% rate. UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) is so dirt cheap that even a .1% or .01% may generate enough economic incentive to continue (sadly enough). Then again, having done some work on a list of email addresses [1] it didn't terribly surprise me that nearly half were unusable after applying certain criteria to the addresses [2], so it may be that the only people who are really making money at UCE are those selling email addresses ("500 million email addresses for only $19.95! While supplies last!"), selling spam software ("Send out 500 million messages in 1 hour using a 14.4 connection! Only $59.95! While supplies last!") or doing the actual bulk remailing ("We'll send out 500 million copies of your message to the world for only $9.95! Hurry, while our connections last!"). Sorry, but I can't relate this to the charter of the list, but maybe this is critical enough to to let slip. -spc (Who has an account just for spam mail ... ) [1] One of our web sites has a form that collects email address for people that come to the site. And people do leave their real email address. The ones that know better don't leave a valid email address. [2] Basically, does it match [A-Za-z0-9_]+(a)[a-zA-Z][A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.['com'|'net'|'edu'9;net'|'edu'...] ? There are ways to make the selection even better, but I'll refrain from going further here.