No I think your message illustrates things pretty well. I guess the fundimental differenc here is not only does it cost usually very little to receive these messages it costs even less infact dramatically to send spam. It seems there is no real reason for the spammer to be concerned with whether the mail is properly targeted or not so a full on flood is possible and the leads generated by this flood percentage wise have to be many factors less than the percentage of success in snailmail.
On 3 May 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > ... I'm not sure entirely what the big deal with spam is. Honestly sure > > I get it like everyone else, in some of my accounts more than others > > ... I have a delete key ... > > in the time between when you sent the above, and when i read it, the > following messages were added to my mailbox: > > 1+ 05/03 stay5hard@hotmail The Harder you are The More She Will Come .. Vi > 2 05/03 stayhdard@hotmail An Investment that will Rise with out a Doubt.. > 3 05/03 sta4yhard@hotmail The Harder you are The More She Will Come.. Via > 4 05/03 stayharud@hotmail The Harder you are The More She Will Come.. Via > 5 05/03 "henning@mercadob Nasty Japanese Whores! 14918<<Have you ever won > 6 05/03 Cindy_W0887w08@ho fw.....$25 Investment - Massive Return<<======= > 7 05/03 Cindy_W5276c01@ms fw......$25 Investment - Massive Return<<====== > 8 05/03 "Joke-of-the-Day! Patients taking Tri-Phetamine for 30 days, lost > 9 05/03 istayhard@hotmail The best Hard-on you have ever had<<VIAGRA (and > 10 05/03 sjtayhard@hotmail Be Hard as a Rock.. Make her come and come../<< > 11 05/03 "AEMI" ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina > 12 05/03 "AEMI" ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina > 13 05/03 stayhayrd@hotmail Be Hard as a Rock.. Make her come and come .. V > 14 05/03 sxtayhard@hotmail Vaniqa .. Order today You Unwanted Hair Will be > 15 05/03 zstayhard@hotmail The Harder you are The More She Will Come.. Via > 16 05/03 stayrhard@hotmail Take the Blue Pill.. and show her how far the R > 17 05/03 sthayhard@hotmail Better for Him Better for Her.. . Order Viagra > 18 05/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Affordable Hunts!<<<html> <head> <title > 19 05/03 mailing@revistatr Especial 100 edi es<<A TRIP deste m s j est na > 20 05/03 "AEMI" ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina > 21 05/03 stadyhard@hotmail Take the Blue Pill.. and show her how far the R > 22 05/03 "Kitty Dials" Record Low MORTGAGE rates! *Act Fast* 11551<<<h > 23 05/03 "AEMI" ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina > 24 05/03 "AEMI" ADV: A low cost professional 800 number is fina > 25 05/03 stayhnard@hotmail Online Pharmacy..Any Medication you Need Lowest > 26 05/03 "Val" (&~) You only THINK you're a U.S. citizen! %8t< > > it comes in 24 hours a day, 365.24 days per year, at about that rate. and > that's after subscribing to several source-address-based rejection filters, > and rejecting some additional sources. (otherwise it would be 4X worse, at > least according to my syslog.) here's a short term histogram: > > lartomatic=# SELECT DATE(entered),COUNT(*) FROM spam > WHERE DATE(entered) >= '2002-04-01'::DATE > GROUP BY DATE(entered) > ORDER BY DATE(entered) DESC; > date | count > ------------+------- > 2002-05-03 | 78 -- (partial) > 2002-05-02 | 111 > 2002-05-01 | 176 > 2002-04-30 | 122 > 2002-04-29 | 99 > 2002-04-28 | 65 > 2002-04-27 | 128 > 2002-04-26 | 143 > 2002-04-25 | 107 > 2002-04-24 | 107 > 2002-04-23 | 73 > 2002-04-22 | 121 > 2002-04-21 | 72 > 2002-04-20 | 101 > 2002-04-19 | 104 > 2002-04-18 | 89 > 2002-04-17 | 100 > 2002-04-16 | 78 > 2002-04-15 | 119 > 2002-04-14 | 113 > 2002-04-13 | 116 > 2002-04-12 | 167 > 2002-04-11 | 167 > 2002-04-10 | 100 > 2002-04-09 | 166 > 2002-04-08 | 81 > 2002-04-07 | 105 > 2002-04-06 | 115 > 2002-04-05 | 116 > 2002-04-04 | 125 > 2002-04-03 | 91 > 2002-04-02 | 88 > 2002-04-01 | 97 > (33 rows) > > go ahead and "Just Hit Delete" if you want. >
