"Kristi Carney" wrote in message
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Paul...

Heh heh... could be an underlying reason... I was just having a good
chuckle
that the particular spam has been for a "dating" thingee/service... kind
of
apropo on a single parent board, I guess...

I know what you mean about kind of appropriate but it's still Spam, of
course, just not off-topic spam for once.

just wondered why spam is prevalent on boards and newsgroups...?

This is an interesting one. I'd be surprised if very many sophisticated,
veteran Net users actually bought anything from a company that spammed, just
on principle. That said the obviously commercial spammers wouldn't be
bothering to do it if it didn't provide at least *some* income so I suppose
they're either banking on replies from users who are naive or don't care.
The problem, I suppose, is that the cost of sending bulk emails is pretty
small so they really don't need a very high "hit" percentage before they
cover their costs.


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Paul Griffiths