Re: spamonomics

2004-01-21 Thread john hull
I would. It happens all the time. So what are the methodologies of the auto-erotic reporting studies and how are they flawed? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-21 Thread Dimitriy V. Masterov
I guess the basic objection is that people will not talk about their sexual behavior honestly. The usual assumption is that men will exaggerate and women will understate their experiences. You can read Edward Laumann's book about how the surveys are conducted. They spent a lot of time designing

Re: [armchair] Re: spamonomics

2004-01-21 Thread Ron Baty
Aside from the legitimate economic reasons for v!gra spam I would offer that the mark-up on sugar pills marketed as v!agra is quite high. Quality control is a significant problem when buying any drug over the internet, that is what are you actually receiving? The brain is our largest sex organ,

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-21 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Christopher Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Followed closely by offers from extremely respectable officials in Nigeria who will give me hundreds of thousands of dollars merely for sending them my chequing account information. One can see how the first three products are highly complementary,

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-21 Thread AdmrlLocke
I've seen almost exactly the same distribution. As a first impression, I wonder if the Nigeria scam doesn't employ the same anonymity (from the other side) that recipients of the first three types of emails value. Tracking down a scam online might well prove more difficult than doing so over the

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-21 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/21/04 3:34:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was so ignorant, until last month I thought Paris Hilton was a hotel in France ;-) Paris Hilton is both a hotel in France AND desert topping! (from an old Saturday Night Live skit it's both a floor wax AND a desert topping!)

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-21 Thread Robert A. Book
In a message dated 1/21/04 3:34:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was so ignorant, until last month I thought Paris Hilton was a hotel in France ;-) Paris Hilton is both a hotel in France AND desert topping! (from an old Saturday Night Live skit it's both a floor wax AND a desert