What are they thinking?!?

[Schmitt, Andy C - CIDD-2]

You'd be surprised. The same kind of people who write emails like:

"HI I JSUT GOT MY CHEEP AOL ACOUCNT SO N0W I CNA SRUF TEH ITNENRET 4 PRON AND SNED E-GRETEING CRADS TO POEPLE ALL DAY"

are likely to have no trouble deciphering, and wanting to buy merchandise advertised by, a message that says something like:

"u wnana v1aagaarA or ><ana><? tehn kl1ck here:"

At least that's the way I figure it. ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Daters [mailto:craig at WESTPRESS.COM]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 12:03 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: What are they thinking?!?


Honestly, what makes these people believe that we want to read their
damn spam! Especially if the text is all obfuscated? What do they get
out of it? Surely no one actually buy's into this crap which is so
hard to read?? I get email messages now that are nothing more than
lists of words! The subject may say something about a 'cable filter',
but when I open it, it's like looking at a list of baby names or
something....

I see spam as nothing more than a way for someone with nothing but
time on their hands, and no wanting for money to do away with email
altogether. Why do people put so much time into finding ways to get
unreadable mail into our inboxes?

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Craig Daters (craig at westpress.com)
Systems Administrator
West Press Printing
1663 West Grant Road
Tucson, Arizona 85745-1433

Tel: 520-624-4939
Fax: 520-624-2715

www.westpress.com

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