Heaven help Mr. Soto
Slashdot links to this story about
Orlando Soto, a man who actually loves receiving, reading and responding to spam.
Mr. Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all. The 45-year-old grandfather opens most of them. He answers spam questionnaires. And he buys stuff pitched in spam e-mail -- again and again. 'Everyday people call it spam,' says Mr. Soto, who prefers calling it 'unsolicited' e-mail. 'But I'm open to everything.'
If everyone hated spam, it would disappear. But like the traditional direct-mail marketers and telemarketers who came before them, spammers survive public outrage, filters, lawsuits and regulations because innumerable times a day, somebody, somewhere responds with money.
Poor Orlando. You just know he's going to get ripped a new one or one thousand by Slashdotters everywhere. On the comment board they're all asking for his email address. It's just a matter of time.
* Ray, 3/16/2004 01:27:29 PM
