>Why do people do this anyway?  They must know it annoys people and brings
>down the reputation of their company.  Would you buy from someone who
>constantly spammed your inbox?  Unless they are service providers
>charging by the packet :-)

Spam has become an industry. People pay money for servers and bandwidth to
send it, clients pay isps for spam filtering, backbones charge for
traffic, everyone is happy. Excepting me (i have the same email address
since 1996).

Bayesian filters are being defeated now. I get spam now that contains
dictionary words, spelled right, and no clue as to what they advertise.
The embedded url offers no clues as to the product. A bayesian filter that
will kill such a mail will kill mail from your lawyer equally well (if not
better) (some words used are legalese etc).

Peter

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