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Quotes About Spam

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.
~ Bill Gates
There are no algorithms for content moderation in place. All 8chan moderation relies on human volunteers and one automated 'bot' account to remove illegal content or spam, automated or human, based only on keywords.
~ Jim Watkins
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.
~ Dick Morris
People say we live in an age of information overload. Right? I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.
~ James Veitch
No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.
~ David Baker
over 19,000 haiku about Spam—"Spamku"—have to this date been posted online.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Press Releases are spam
~ Jason Fried
What do you call a generic pitch sent out to hundreds of strangers hgoping that one will bite? Spam.
~ Jason Fried
Check your spam folder The prophecies might be there No? Well, I'm stumped. Bye
~ Rick Riordan
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.
~ John Battelle
The icons light up on his laptop, e-mail invites him to grow his penis, enlarge his breasts, refinance his house. All is well in the world.
~ Andrei Codrescu
Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.
~ Dick Morris
We already know that spam is a huge downside of online life. If we're going to be spammed on our telephones wherever we go, I think we're going to reject these devices.
~ Howard Rheingold
Mix up your posts and don't use auto-share or posting programs because those put the same content everywhere. You want to engage your fans, not spam them with the exact same posts on all networks.
~ Donald S. Passman
I think of the spam folder not as Pandora's box but as a costume shop in which you can play and play at being whoever and whatever you wish. If only for a time.
~ James Veitch
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
~ Bill Gates
Harper took a can of Spam out of her carpetbag and hunted in the cupboard for something to spread it on.
~ Joe Hill
If someone has my number that I don't know and texts me a considerable amount I would just block the number.
~ Joe Harris
he looked like an angry, underfed golem carved from oatmeal, egg yolks, and rancid spam—about three hundred years ago.
~ John Birmingham
I think, therefore I spam.
~ Margaret Atwood
This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
~ Eric Allman
Why is Nigerian spam so sloppy? If you've gotten an email from a prince offering to split millions of dollars with you, you may have noticed all the misspellings and other telltale clues that it can't possibly be real.
~ Seth Godin
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
~ Tom Hodgkinson