Man 'Disapointed' When He Only Gets 17 SPAM Emails In A Day

[matcom]

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NEW YORK -- Orlando Soto looks forward each evening to spending time on his home computer after work. But when he logged on one Wednesday night last month, he was disappointed: There were 17 spam e-mail messages waiting for him.

"Only 17," he lamented, scrolling through them. "That's a very light day."

Mr. Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all. The 45-year-old grandfather opens most of them. He answers spam questionnaires. And he buys stuff pitched in spam e-mail -- again and again. "Everyday people call it spam," says Mr. Soto, who prefers calling it "unsolicited" e-mail. "But I'm open to everything."

If everyone hated spam, it would disappear. But like the traditional direct-mail marketers and telemarketers who came before them, spammers survive public outrage, filters, lawsuits and regulations because innumerable times a day, somebody, somewhere responds with money.

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[GOPisEvil]

1. Dammit Orlando! Stop buying this crap!

Maybe THEN they'll get the message that all they are doing is pissing the majority of us off!

[terrya]

2. He can have some of mine.

ESPECIALLY the penis enlargement ads! I do NOT have any need of that particular service.

:-)

Terry

[Turbineguy]

5. Was that "by" or "to"

2-1/2 inches?

On edit: This is not an ad hominem!

[terrya]

6. Um, that would be...

"by". And that's all I'm going to talk about concerning this subject. I've said WAY too much already!

:-)

Terry

[MindPilot]

3. Holy crap that's for real!

At first glance I thought it was going to link to the Onion or satire wire. I guess the spam really is effective since they keep doing it...

Un-freakin-believable!!

[Az]

4. They should have posted his email addie

That way we could make sure he gets a life time of spam in one day.