What are they thinking?!?

Fri Feb 20 20:25:01 GMT 2004

Case in point... What the hell is the message trying to scam me out of?

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>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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