ridecamp@endurance.net: Ridecamp SPAM info - not endurance related

Ridecamp SPAM info - not endurance related

Michael K. Maul (mmaul@micro.ti.com)
Thu, 7 Aug 1997 07:00:44 -0700 (PDT)

thought I might share the following e-mail ad I recently received to
show why we are starting to get things showing up on ridecamp and in
your own mailboxes. it is going to be increasingly difficult to avoid
"junk" e-mail in the future.

I am just posting this as info - I wish I knew some way to stop it.
no idea as to why I received it.

mike
mmaul@micro.ti.com
houston, tx

**** from a recent SPAM to my e-mail account *****

%%% MAKE YOUR SALES SOAR! USE THE MOST
POWERFUL ADVERTISING TOOL IN EXISTENCE TODAY -
BULK E-MAILING! GET 4.9 MILLION E-MAIL ADDRESSES ON
CDROM FOR ONLY $139! %%%
** NO DUPES!
**PRE-SORTED!
**PRE-FORMATTED ONE-PER-LINE!
**EASY TO USE ASCII TEXT!
**ON CD-ROM - SAVE DISK SPACE AND DATA WORRIES!
**FREE DEMO/TRIAL BULK E-MAIL PROGRAMS INCLUDED!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
T3 Communications specializes in providing bulk E-Mail lists to the
do-it yourself marketer for advertising use. We are making available to
you 4.9 MILLION E-Mail addresses for only $139! There's more! The
addresses were gathered from "hits" at certain web sites and locations
relating to business opportunities. We all know that sales is a numbers
game. The more people that are exposed to your product, the more
sales you will make. Using a list of this kind, it would not be unusual
to see up to a 10%+ response rate!! This will of course vary depending
on the product or service offered; but sending your ad to MILLIONS
of people should earn you a tremendous response, regardless of what
your product may be. It is almost impossible to find another form of
advertising that generates such a high response rate. By sending your
messages during periods of slow online use (avoid early evenings) you
can send over 50,000 ads per day for nothing but the service charge of
your online provider. If you use a bulk e-mailer program you can do up
to a million per day! Nothing compares! Imagine reaching up to 4.9
MILLION people... with regular advertising it would cost you in the
hundreds of thousands of dollars. With this offer your overhead is so
low that it takes just a few orders to pay for you new E-Mail list!.

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