https://mikedaddy.com/tags/spam/ Recent content in Spam on mikedaddy blog https://mikedaddy.com/images/cowpic.png https://mikedaddy.com/images/cowpic.png Hugo -- 0.140.0 en-us 2002 Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:16:10 +0000 https://mikedaddy.com/king-of-spam-interview/ Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:16:10 +0000 https://mikedaddy.com/king-of-spam-interview/ <p>This guy sends out 2 billion emails a month. It’s all spam and he’s responsible for it. Read his interview.</p> <p>From his home office, where a dozen rack-mounted computer servers hum 24 hours a day, Scelson — in customary T-shirt and shorts — sends millions of e-mails to 50 or so computer servers in the USA, China, South America and Europe. It costs $20,000 a month to pump out e-mail hawking everything from insurance to toys to lingerie. Software plows through 165,000 e-mail addresses an hour, searching for the roughly 16% that are active. Automated e-mail is then sent to the accounts, asking subscribers if they want spam. On average, only 3,000 of 5 million respond “yes,” Scelson says. He says he continues to send e-mail pitches to those accounts and leaves others alone.</p>