Re: spamonomics

2004-01-22 Thread Anton Sherwood
Christopher Auld wrote: . . . Merchants who think I might be keen to see Paris Hilton perform intimate acts are third on the list. Followed closely by offers from extremely respectable officials in Nigeria . . . . For me these days, smut comes after services for insurance brokers. -- Anton

Re: [armchair] Re: spamonomics

2004-01-22 Thread Fred Foldvary
Fraud is not part of the market. Fred Foldvary --- Ron Baty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fraud should not be part of the market but always has been and will likely continue to be part of any realistic market A pure market consists of voluntary economic acts, and theft, including fraud, has

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-22 Thread AdmrlLocke
Wow, I was going to respond that I've almost never gotten an email for insurance, and then decided not to clutter up the list. When I checked my new mail again, however, I found an ad for insurance! That reminded me that in fact I have gotten many emails, mostly for cheap health insurance.

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
problems with their purchase. Ron B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:15 AM Subject: [armchair] Re: spamonomics I would. It happens all the time. So what are the methodologies of the auto-erotic

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

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-20 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Simple - you can anonymously buy impotence treatment over the Internet. No need to tell a real person that you ahve a sexual problem. I've also heard people use v!agra for enhancing sexual experience, not too cure a medical problem. Those people probably want to avoid doctors. Fabio On Tue, 20

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-20 Thread Dimitriy V. Masterov
I suspect the fact that many people use the internet to view pornography makes contemporaneous v!agra spam fairly effective. If consumer decisions are susceptible to situational cues and entrepreneurs exploit this feature of preferences, aroused people will purchase large quantities of v!agra. You

Re: spamonomics

2004-01-20 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/20/04 7:10:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AdmrlLocke wrote: People who engage in more sexual activity and alternative sexual lifestyles might feel less embarassed about admitting to auto-erotica than others, so the results might contain a great deal of skew. But should we