Interesting article about SPAM...

[BCYL]

Interesting article on MSNBC about who profits from spam...

Talks about how big companies like Quicken and ISPs profit from spam...

 

[PCboy]

hmmm very interesting indeed... especially the food chain.. we need a spam emotion here.

 

[fs5]

and here I thought you were talking about SPAM the meat product.

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
and here I thought you were talking about SPAM the meat product.

 

[boyRacer]

I think that kinda sucks that the name Spam has been used to label junk email... i actually like eating Spam.

<--- poor college student who think spam and ramen are miracles

 

[MrBond]

This is no surprise. Spam falls into about three catagories

1) Scams/false products

2)Actual products (porn/dvdcopy/telezapper/software/etc)

3)Affiliate programs

Most companies prohibit spamming their affiliate programs, but they don't do anything to stop it. Affiliate program spamming has been going on since the first one was created, it's not going anywhere. there's too much of it for the companies to hire someone to police it.

Not all ISP's profit from spam. I get at least 10 emails a day with 100k or larger attachments (one way spammers get around filters, they email you a giant image file with the ad on it). That's roughly 1mb a day incoming for my email account only. There's people on my ISP that get WAY more spam then I do.