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by CodeMage 6250 days ago
Spam still exists because there are enough people who, upon receiving it, generate profit by buying spamvertised products.

Piracy still exists because people want things for free and copying digital content is a lot easier than stealing a physical product.

Both of these things share two key aspects:

1) The technology in charge of suppressing them cannot suppress them 100% (yet).

2) They appeal to basic nature in a large pool of humans.

Yet everyone seems to focus so much on the first aspect...

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So you're suggesting deading the people that respond to spam email?

That would also works for me.