On Sun, Aug 7, 2005 at 8:05 pm -0400, Peter Saint James wrote: > It would also seem that if spamming really does pay, this >undermines one of the foundations of classical economics, which is >supposed to be based on the idea that buyers are rational people >pursuing goals favorable to themselves.
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