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I do snailmail spam systems during the day time. I have about 11 or 12 years experience doing them. We call them "direct marketing databases" but it is spam. People did not request to get our letters, they just showed up on our list by virtue of having bought a new house, gotten a new telephone number or several other events that get them identified in a system as a "new mover".

Is junk mail reviled. Generally, yes.
Do people profess to hate it. Generally, yes.
Does it kill trees by using up massive amounts of paper. Yes.
etc etc etc.

There are tons of bad things people say about junk mail. Same sort of things they say about email spam. They don't receive quite as much junkmail as they do email spam because junkmail costs to send each piece.

But for all the folks who claim to hate it, all the folks who want it stopped etc.

PEOPLE RESPOND TO IT. IT WORKS.

Just like email spam. If people did not respond to it, if the mailer was not making bucks by sending it, it would stop. That simple.

As far as the amount of heat brought upon this industry by spam, I don't think it did half as much damage as did credit card schemes and the like.

How come no one is claiming that the mortgages industry has been hurt by spam, how come the heat isn't on them. I get ten times the amount of spam from them as I do adult. How come the heat isn't coming down super hard on pharma, illegal software, or any of the 5000 other subjects I get spammed daily (none of them adult).

Because SPAM was just another excuse to come down on Porn. The heat comes down because it is porn, not because it is being spammed. A certain minority in our country would love to see every expression of sexuality shut down. They don't give a shit about how many folks they hurt. They would love nothing more then to see every one of us "pornographers" dead in the name of their morality.

And 99.99999% of the time they try to do it in the name of the children.

It is my job as a parent to supervise my children until they are old enough to make their own choices. It is also my responsibility to educate them in how to make intelligent, rational choices so that when they are away from my supervision I can be pretty sure that they are going to be ok. It is also my responsibility, as a parent, to educate myself as to the things my children involve themselves in or want to involve themselves in.