> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:17 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Bombarded by German political spam > > > On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:42:09 PM, David Funk wrote: > > So the intensity of the spam bombing is inversely proportional to > > the local computer community 'clue level'. This tends to indicate > > that there are more clue-less American windows llusers than there > > are German. No surprise there, however a bit counter-productive > > given the original perps probable desired results. ;) > > IIRC Sober P advertised free World Cup tickets or something like > that. That would tend to get people to open the virus spams in > Europe, but probably wouldn't mean sh!t here in the U.S. where > probably fewer than 1 in 10 people has any idea what a "World > Cup" is. Superbowl they've heard of. World Cup not. ;-) >
That's not really accurate, soccer is actually one of the largest team, youth, sports in America now. IIRC it's has been the YMCA's biggest team sport for nearly a decade. That means the kids that are playing, and their parents, will know what a World Cup is. In America we tended to judge the enthusiasm for a sport based on revenue and media coverage. Right now the advertising target for athletics are those who play, are involved in or played soccer when they were kids. When I was in school there was 5 days devoted to soccer in JR. High and that was it. Now there are probably more soccer families in our community than baseball. In the next 10 - 15 years you will see a big difference in the number of pro soccer teams in the US as well as an increase in coverage because the kids that have grown up playing soccer will have the money to be heard and catered to. It's economics not ignorance, sports media coverage follows the money, as it always has. Rick -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
