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Spam

Delete all spam without opening it - If no one opens it, they will stop sending it.

If no one ever opened spam, or if very few people did, it would not be sent. Because they wouldn't get enough results to make it pay. They keep sending it because some percentage of people fall for it - for the catchy subject lines. The percentage of people that get hooked and open the spam are the reason that it keeps coming to all of us. These folks need to wake up and realize that there is nothing true that is too good to be true. You can safely assume that all the subject lines are misleading and its a waste of time to open them.

Contributed by Glen Khalen

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- Mihai Valentin Predoi

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