Dear Friends
I got this email the other day:
Dear Friends. Here is at last a new dating service for conscious people all around the world.Check this out and meet your match !
It was from a web site calling itself "Conscious Nubians". I hate to disappoint them, but I won't be joining.
It's not because I have anything against Nubians. I'd love to date a Nubian. If I were single, and she was a good match.
And it's not because I have anything against conscious dates. I've had dates where I wasn't sure that was the case, and I much prefer my dates to be conscious.
The thing is, I hate spam. Not only did they see fit to send me an unsolicited email, they saw fit to do it like a dozen times. If the first one doesn't suck me in, the others aren't going to do it either. Trust me on this.
Besides which, it's racist. Do I have to be Nubian to join? It doesn't matter to me whether someone is Nubian or not. And what's with their presuming that I'm Nubian?
Are they trying to say that most Nubians aren't conscious?
Maybe it's Osama Bin Laden sending a message in code, and it has nothing to do with Nubians at all. Or being conscious. Or dating.
We need a system where it costs money to send an email, and the recipient can click a button forgiving the fee. Then maybe we can cut down on the scum-sucking scamming spamming out there.
Happy Easter. 
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Posted 4/15/2006 11:56:00 PM
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Did the spam contain pictures of hot conscious Nubians or do you have to send money to see the photos? How much did they want to join, not that I'm interested.
Can't say I like the thought of having to pay to send emails although I agree that spam is a nuisance and worse.
I'm jealous. I never get spam that good. The best i get is the Nigerian Bank Manager LOL
My, we do get some interesting things popping up in our email accounts.
Spam is a bane of my life.
Checking email is now a half hour long process for me!
Happy Easter :)
Suppose it costs ten cents to send an email. You put ten dollars in the email account, and that's good for 100 emails worst case. But if you're sending email to people you know, or institutions who want your email, they'll decline to accept your money and you haven't lost anything. You only lose the dime if you email someone who doesn't decline the fee.
Now suppose you're a spammer. You can't afford to send out ten million emails anymore, because almost nobody is going to decline the money from you.
There weren't any pictures in the email, but there are hot conscious Nubians depicted on the web site. I don't think they charge anything, but I'm not sure.
I'll be happy to forward my spam to you, Michelle. :)
Well, you should try coming to my office on Monday morning and having to read through 1200 pieces of SPAM one by one, to ensure it's really SPAM or needs to be sent through. :)
Dave, I like your payment idea. The only problem is all that time it would take to filter and choose whether to forgive the fee or not for each and every email is far greater than the time it takes to multi-tick the dozen or so obvious spam messages and delete them. Plus, I have a problem with "forgiving" a payment for something I may not want after all -- because it implies that it has some kind of value that I'm acknowledging by letting it through free and well, some of the crap I get from relatives is not worthy of forgiving in that sense! ;)
But yeah, I hate spam, too.
Um, Dave? Do you get email notifications for comments posted to your blog? Because I just got SPAMMED by 'undeliverable mail' to an apparent email address of yours! Twice. I'm guessing for the 2 comments I made a bit earlier - it appears your inbox is full or something?. And perhaps a third one will hit for this comment. HAHAHAHA.... Nice. ;)
[You owe me 30 cents, man!]
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