How Powerful is the Turn-Off Power of Spam? 114
JayBonci asks: "Here's a question to the Slashdot readerbase. How powerful is the turnoff power of spam? With an upcoming political election in the United States, and a nation not very-well defended against mass unsolicited emailings, what kind of anti-marketing medium is spam? Could a spammer push out millions of: 'V0te for G3orge W. Bush!' or 'J0hn Kerry for Presidnet@', in the hopes to turn off (or on) voters. Spam marketing penetration is terrible (I've heard figures like .001%), but how powerful is its anti-marketing capabilities? An interesting discussion for the Slashdot audience." How often do you make the decision to NOT buy something form a company because you know they engage in spamming activities?
Enough is enough (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Enough is enough (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Probably not very powerful (Score:5, Funny)
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Mysterious Science (Score:2, Funny)
I hate you (Score:1, Funny)
Are kidding me? (Score:5, Funny)
You think SPAM is going to have an effect on this election? SPAM!? You must be living in a different America my friend, because you can send Men In Black to beat me with rubber hoses while writing "Kerry Killed Your Cat HA HA!" in blood on my wall and I will still drag myself on broken arms to the polls to cast my vote against Bush on election day.
So no, we're well $#%@ beyond spam making a difference at this point...
Re:Enough is enough (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, that's the low-speed, centralised network that the other candidate in 2000 "took the initiative in creating".
Re:in this election (Score:3, Funny)
The Supreme Court isn't nearly that large. {wry grin}
Seriously, the margin of victory in the 2000 election was within the margin of error of the polling system. It works OK when there's a substantial margin between the leading candidates (e.g. Reagan over Mondale, Clinton over Dole), but it simply isn't capable of measuring with the precision that a very close race requires.
How Powerful is the Turn-Off Power of Spam? (Score:4, Funny)