It may be spammers retaliating...or your system could be a zombie that actually is sending out these emails, unbeknownst to you, as a background program installed by an intruder.
Why do the spammers send email to billions rather than the 4% who respond? First, the 4% of billions represents immense, vast, easy, fast wealth for spammers. 4% response if this is the actual figure, and I think it is, is amazingly huge response, good for direct mail, telemarketing, etc. 4% sounds small. It's not small. I'll take 4% of a trillion dollars (USD) any day of the week. Spammers don't know who that 4% is going to be, like with all direct response marketing. So they *have* to send email to all billion addresses. Plus, it costs them the same to send to 10 people as it does to send to 10 billion people, as far as I can ascertain. Someone might know more about this, bandwidth considerations, whatever. I'm not a mass email marketer, though I am conducting an email survey right now as we speak, non-commercial, research only. ===== Steven Streight Web Usability Analyst & Content Writer Blogologist Digital Media Artist Virtual Instrument Music Composer http://www.vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com http://www.streightsite.blogspot.com http://www.arttestexplosion.blogspot.com EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
