On Thursday 24 August 2006 14:29, Katipo wrote: > You're in the States, and therefore classified as American market source. > I'm in Australia, and it's all China and Korea here. > Very little from South America or EU. I used to get a *lot* from Korea, almost all of it from Kornet. I have to wonder if they cleaned up their act or went under: I haven't heard peep one from Korea for months now. > Corporates employ off-shore spammers because they have the cheap labour > resources ( a lot of the ISPs clients get free online in return for > spamming), act as an identity buffer for public image factors, and being > off-shore, the ISP, and therefore corporate identity, enjoys a level of > insulation from prosecution. I haven't seen any corporate marketing of any kind via email, except from ThinkGeek and Dotster, but I subscribed to their newsletters. At least in the States, corporate spam is such a massively bad PR move that about the only thing you're likely to get unsolicited via email with a corporate logo on it is a phishing attempt from the EU or central Africa. > Last fiscal year, the American pharmaceutical sector invested $4 billion > in direct advertising. > Not all of that went to spammers, but if it did, it would have > translated into an effective $20 billion in advertising value. I'm not sure any of it went to spammers, as the pharm companies themselves lose money because of spammers selling knockoffs. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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