Comments on: How Spammers see themselve

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:20:48 +0000

I don’t think it’s as simple as people make it out to be. I’ve worked on legitimate e-mail campaigns for several companies, and I see e-mail classified into 3 categories:

1. Not Spam – Emails from families and friends, opt-in newsletters that you actually read, etc…

2. Clearly Spam – Misleading advertisements going to harvested email addresses (WHOIS contacts, forum posts, etc).

3. Marketing – The majority of e-mails are marketing attempts. They’re not really spam, but they’re not really anything YOU want right now. However, it could be just what another 30% of the recipients were looking for. So “creative marketing” might make you puke, but you might just be the wrong target. Similarly, some advertisements that you might like might make someone else puke, even though they are sent out with aggressive/creative marketing.

It’s really subjective.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:13:13 +0000

“We are lucky that they don’t roam the streets at slap people in the face with their ringtone offerings, after all, that would be creative and agreesive, too.” — Actually, *they’re* lucky – if one of these losers tried this in my visible range they wouldn’t likely survive the event…

By: Matt Wilcox

Matt Wilcox — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:08:37 +0000

“I do some aggressive tactics and if your not down with that I really could care less if your reading.”

You *use* aggressive tactics, not “do” them.

“you’re” not your (in both instances).

“couldn’t care less” not “could care less”. If you could care less it implies you care at the moment. The idea is to communicate that you hold no value in the opinion being expressed, not that you do.

A single sentence which is a clear indicator that the person in question is careless at best, and more likely the spamming asshat they appear to be.