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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/29/21 10:34 AM, Roger Critchlow
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe google sends mail to spam when it can't
figure out how to monetize it, thus encouraging me to get a more
exploitable life?</div>
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<p>Great bumper sticker...</p>
<p> <font size="+1">Get an</font> <font size="-1">exploitable</font><font
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 10:49
AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com"
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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well,
there's evil, and there's Evil. This thread, including RussA's
implicit confirmation of Marcus' point about fora rigidity,
dovetails nicely with the [ab|mis]use thread and Nick's trope
about ancillary vs primary effects. The scammers, themselves
not necessarily their children, are Evil ... but we can
empathize if they're doing it because the world is a harsh and
complex place. You gotta make money somehow. They're simply
doing what we tell them they have to do.<br>
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Lurkers are opaque. Presumably, Google is a lurker on every
clear text email you send through their platform, including
this one. But I haven't really noticed any targeted marketing,
perhaps because I use their IMAP interface, not the web
interface? So even if they're using this content to profile
and target people, it's merely little-e evil and I (perhaps
falsely) understand why they're lurking. They're a for-profit
business. It's a way to extract money. You gotta make money
somehow. Google is simply doing what we tell them they have to
do.<br>
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But individual lurkers are much harder to guess about. The
opacity doesn't bother me, personally. It's none of my
business what others think of me. (Similarly, to quote
Fleetwood Mac, don't ask me what I think of you. I might not
give the answer that you want me to.) But it does seem to be
important to some. My advice is to treat this like a
traditional medium. Each post is something you'd be willing to
print out and nail to the telephone pole downtown. Any other
conception seems like magical thinking.<br>
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On 1/28/21 2:18 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:<br>
> Of course it is criminal to do that. I used to think
whenever something is happening in nature it is either supper
or pairing time. Now I tend to think whenever something is
happening it is something selfish. Or evil. There is so much
evil in this world, isn't it?<br>
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