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by Pumpkin_Man » Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:47 pm
For the very same reason we're indondated with junk mail every day. $$$$$ MONDY$$$$$ That's why. Junk mailers send out hundreds of thousands of junk mailings, and rake in millions when only about 3 to 5 % answer their mailings. With the Internet and e-mail, the potential customer list is much, much bigger. Now, they can send junk e-mail or spam to tens of millions instead of one million or 100 thousand. Again, if 2 or 2% actualy buys what they are selling, they are raking cash hand over fist. It's all about the big bucks.
Of course, there are plenty of "crank" spam as well. Some people like to use a computer the same way little 'trouble makers' like me use to use the telephone when I was about 10 or 11 years old. Back then, there were no answering machines (well, there were, but they were very expensive and hard to isntall) There was no Caller I D, and most of the pones still had drotary dials onthem, so we would make "crank" phone calls all the ti me.
The Internet has pretty much replaced telephones as the venu for 10 and 11 year old pranksters who like to play jokes.
Mike