[BC] Ellis email

[Gordon Carter]

The solution is simple in concept, but near impossible to enact --
IGNORE IT.

If everyone who receives spam ignored it without responding, the
incentive for the spammers would go away quickly.  It's just like junk
mail, they work on percentages.  One tenth of one percent reply rate
doesn't seem like much until you send out several hundred thousand.  Now
you have a significant number.  There's always someone out there who
bites on this stuff.

However, as I said, if EVERYONE ignores it, pretty soon there would be
no incentive for doing it.

Gordon S. Carter, CPBE, CBNT
Chief Engineer
WFMT and The Radio Network
5400 North St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625
773 279-2071

Sid Schweiger wrote:

The person who finally discovers how to destroy spammers' profits will
earn the everlasting gratitude of netizens everywhere.