On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 13:26:02 -0500, John P Reber
wrote:

[snip]

Ultimately, the only solution to spam is for it to be no longer
profitable for
the spammers--that people stop responding ot it.

Joe Parsons

The problem there is that some of the spammers aren't spamming their
product. They're spamming you with other peoples products so that you
don't buy from them, and you buy from their competitor who is the
actuall spammer.

That's true. You have two tiers of spam: those who are hawking their own stuff,
and those who are selling a spamming service to people who don't know any
better. I suspect the latter group (the big spamhauses) are larger. While they
make their money by selling their "services" to ignorant merchants, if the word
were to get out that spamming simply doesn't work as a marketing approach, then
their market would dry up.

Joe Parsons