from "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Did you ever wonder why there aren't very many spams *received* by people > who have FREE email accounts ???
> IMO, > The spammers don't bother to send their adversiments to people who don't > have the money to buy the products being advertised in those spams. > Think about it for a seccond..... > If a person can't afford to pay for email service. > Then they most certainly can't afford to buy any of the products being > sold by the spammers. > In addition, > Did you ever wonder why the spammers signup for FREE accounts at Yahoo, > Hotmail etc, etc, and then use them for sending spam ??? > Simple.... it keeps the overhead down. > And since no real proof of identity is needed for getting such an > email account. > It's quite easy to open up a new one if the one your are currently using > gets terminated. Don't those free email services have a limit on the number of messages that one user can send in one day? Some do, at least, and the obvious purpose is to deter spam. On spammers not wanting to send spam to poor sales prospects, why do I get all those Korean spams? Do they expect to sell to somebody who can't read the message? Or are spammers indiscriminate on who they target? I had a free email account with Telebot, got some use from it, but then for a long time, I was unable to connect to Telebot. So I guess my account was terminated for inactivity? Sam Heywood, do you really think Yahoo and Hotmail are such big sources of spam? I get a lot more spam from phony Yahoo or Hotmail addresses than from real Yahoo or Hotmail addresses. But I have been getting some Korean spams from real Hotmail and MSN addresses, all going through Hotmail servers. I complained to [EMAIL PROTECTED], they closed offenders' accounts if the accounts were not already closed. But some of those spams came from MSN addresses though they went through Hotmail servers, I was told I had to complain to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I did. But then the spam complaint message bounced for unsupported body type (bug at MSN end?), and all I could do thereafter was simply delete the spams.
