virus: Is junk mail a meme?
Ariel Brosh (ariel@atheist.org.il)
Sun, 25 Jan 1998 04:08:26 +0200 (EET)
About a year ago I got an hostile message to two of my addresses: We
assembled a CD-ROM with 57 millions addresses and you are in! If you don't
like it, you can go suck an egg. We offer this CD for $100 with a powerful
bulk email software.
Off course, they gave their snail mail address, but no email address to
complain about the assault.
Since then, the message repeats about twice a day, each time with
different fake From: lines.
Now, let's assume each time I get the message from a bastard who was
enough of a sucker to buy the CD, and now searching for a way to return
his investment by selling it further on, until it will be sold to the
whole email population.
I claim that illegal CD is memetically based:
Bait - if you buy this CD, you'll be rich without leaving your computer.
Threat - if you don't buy it, we'll keep sending you junk mail.
Hook - the idiot must resell the CD so he can earn back the $$$ he paid
for it.
Just my thoughts.
Ariel Brosh, ariel@atheist.org.il, http://www.atheist.org.il
D/l my recent song at http://audio.mossad.co.il/BarakOded/HeIsGone.mp3
"If not for that god-full-of-compassion, there would be some compassion in
the world and not only in god" (Yehuda Amichay, Israeli poet)