Comments on: Why I Hate Blog Spam http://www.contentious.com/2005/09/01/why-i-hate-blog-spam/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:45:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jonathan Cohen http://www.contentious.com/2005/09/01/why-i-hate-blog-spam/#comment-31897 Jonathan Cohen Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:33:55 +0000 #comment-31897 > I think there�s a tendency to spam first and consider the costs and benefits later. I think they just don't give a damn. Money-grubbing greedy idiots who 20 years ago would be running boiler-room telemarketing scam operations, 50 years ago would be going door-to-door with shoddy products, and 80 years ago would be causing bank runs through Ponzi schemes. > I think there�s a tendency to spam first and consider the costs and benefits later.

I think they just don’t give a damn. Money-grubbing greedy idiots who 20 years ago would be running boiler-room telemarketing scam operations, 50 years ago would be going door-to-door with shoddy products, and 80 years ago would be causing bank runs through Ponzi schemes.

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