For the record, Edg, I get that your post is intended to be at least partly funny, and riffs off of stuff that only we Old School TMer Old Farts could ever be really interested in. And it made me laugh a few times.
But just so you understand, my first post in this thread really *was* a joke. That was just my first reaction after reading the website pointed to by Rick in his first post. I saw it, realized that it was the PERFECT mechanism for gathering up a list of the Most Gullible Spambait On Planet Earth, and riffed on it accordingly, for fun. But then I did a little Googling, and found that it was a For Real event, and sadder, when posts started rolling in to FFL about it, found that some here actually would take such a claim seriously. That just blows my fuckin' mind. I just made a post in which I discuss a few of the reasons it blows my mind, called "Nice to hear from you, Rish...sorry to learn you weren't enlightened." If you find that exercise in cognitive dissonance interesting, I'd be interested in your take on it. ________________________________ From: Duveyoung <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 5:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 30th November | Channeled Info from MMY Email addresses for spamming? Nah. That's old school. Since 1996, my Internet businesses have amassed a "full-permission-to-contact-me"-granted-by-the-users emailing list of over FORTY MILLION addresses -- that's an honest number. I have never sold a single one of them despite they're being demographically primo. Nor do I spam them -- only sending them something if there's been a pricing or policy change -- about once every few years. Nor could I spam -- there's a ton of filters out there that are combing out the gunk. And there's all kinds of other ways to capture eyeballs with click-bait and cookies. Also, there's so many lists available out there that a good list is very hard to authenticate, so selling a list is a very tough go. It's a bullshittery business. And let me tells ya, I went to, say, a couple dozen healers that breezed through FF -- paid wads of cash, and NOT ONE of them took an email address. Getting new age suckers on a list doesn't cut it -- ya gotta have a list of true-believers-in-you if you're gunna hawk a program -- and that's a very short list. These new age folks probably know most of their clients by name. A long list would just be filled with "maybe types." And hey, wouldn't it be great if Jerry took the whole fucking movement away from Girish and Co. by saying HE was the channeler of MMY?
