By Jo Best
Published: Wednesday 26 May 2004
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Jamie
Location
Austin
Occupation
Web Design
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The problem is that there are enough people out there that the spamming still works. Also, since it isn't an actual person that is doing the spamming, but it is an email harvesting program, or email generating program, the owner doesn't actually have any control over the emails that the spam is sent to. The price to spam still makes it an efficient source of business for many businesses. And for many people the idea of money outweighs the cost of loosing a good business image due to spamming.
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