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January 22, 2007 at 11:42 am · Filed under Thinking

I think spam actually makes me depressed. Even with spam filters – it is still there. It is an infection. The filters just tylenol to ease the pain. It bothers me so maybe not because of current inconveniences, but because of what it says about the future of communication technologies. There is a wealth of possible channels to create but how much will people abuse them and will good prevail? That and spam reminds me that all too often things boil down to money.

How much money does spam generate for itself? How much money is spent controlling spam?

On another note, something that makes me happy – I jogged 10 kilometres this weekend. I have to write out kiiilllooooometres because it makes it look longer :P It took me tooooooooo long but at least below the time requirement needed to enter February’s race. I was really really scared of that race because I didn’t know if I could do the distance let alone make good time. Now I know that I probably won’t make good time – but I think I can finish. The next three weekends will be spent learning how to pace myself. On Saturday I intentionally went slower and took a few walking breaks just to make sure I didn’t exhaust myself before getting home. The thing I didn’t lose energy so much as my hip started cramping up and my knees were hurting – I think probably because I was jogging more than running, my feet spent more time on the ground thus there was more impact to my hips and knees…no? Maybe, maybe not. I will try to quicken my pace next weekend and we will see what happens. Still a little scared!

On a completely different note, I am becoming more and more and more intolerable to food of the onion and garlic variety. If I have too much garlic I will wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to fall back to sleep because of the bad taste left in my mouth and the aura of garlic smell that I know clouds my body. Yeah garlic is smelly but onion? Yes onion too. The good thing is that Japanese food does not commonly have too much garlic or onion. The bad thing is that most people like garlic a lot and future turning down of stinky rose-d food might be a put off. The good thing is that I can avoid garlic breath and spending 30 dollars on the Kiss Me Meter.

It’s all random today as I am getting things randomly done but at least, I think, getting things done.

Expression I learned at my lesson the other day (probably old school saying):

彼はかめればかむほど味が分かります。

(kare wa kamereba kamu hodo aji ga wakarimasu)

Meaning sort of “concerning this person…the more you chew on him the better you can come to understand his flavour”. I like it.

Noah said,

January 26, 2007 @ 10:30 am

Fun saying!
I’ve met people that tend to chew and taste like gum underneath a subway chair :-P

Chris said,

February 6, 2007 @ 2:55 am

“How much money does spam generate for itself?”

Suppose you’re selling a penis enlargement drug. If you sell your product for, say, $50, and send out 100 million spam message (which only costs the spammer the price of a monthly ISP fee once the initial expensea of setting up a mass-mailer and buying a list of email addresses are covered), even a pathetic customer reply rate of one in a million would see you make 100 sales and earn a gross revenue of $50,000. Not bad, eh?

And your product is, of course, nothing more than a placebo, so you’ve spent nothing on R&D, and the pills only cost you a few cents per unit to manufacture and barely anything to ship (and you can always pass on the shipping and handling cost to the customer anyway, even charging more for S&H than your actual expense, netting you an even greater profit). What’s your dissatified customer going to do, complain to the FDA or the BBB that the penis enlargement drug he bought from a shady spam message doesn’t actually enlarge his penis?

If spamming wasn’t profitable, the spammers would all have been driven out of business years ago. Unfortunately for us, sending spam is an extremely lucrative business.

“How much money is spent controlling spam?”

Enough that there ought to be harshly enforced international laws against it. Of course, most spammers use off-shore operations beyond the arm of the law anyway, so there’s really little that can be done to stop it. I also read a scary statistic (the exact number might be wrong, but it’s not off by too much) that something like 50% of all internet traffic is spam messages. Imagine how much more efficient the internet would work and how much less infrastructure would be needed if the spam problem was eliminated.

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