Confessions of a Spam King (NY Times)

スパマーの家に取材に行き、スパムがどのように作られるかを取材した記事。こっちは面白い。広告スポンサーもスパムで探すらしい。

''I might get 100 responses from 100,000 e-mails,'' Colbert says. He would write back personally to those, asking for the text of the ad they wanted to spam out and relaying his pricing structure: $300 to send out 100,000 messages or $900 for a million. From the 100 people who would agree to hear his personal pitch, he would usually land between two and five contracts. Although this might seem like a pitiful response rate -- one-five-hundredth of one percent is ruinous in any other market -- this one search for spam clients could yield Colbert as much as $14,000.

最後のほうのスパム規制法案の話も面白いね。