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Old 07-05-2006, 06:18 PM  
QuaWee
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Spam Works! No Kidding!

Another NY Times story. Readers here are ReveNews know this, but the numbers are still interesting.

Spam messages promoting pornography are 280 times as effective in getting recipients to click on them as messages advertising pharmacy drugs, which are the next most effective type of spam. The third most successful variety is spam advertising Rolex watches, 0.0075 percent of which get clicked on, according to an analysis by CipherTrust, a large manufacturer of devices that protect networks from spam and viruses...

http://www.revenews.com/news/2006/07...o_kidding.html

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