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>the amygdala reacts and initiates the release of "fight or flight" chemicals
>into your bloodstream before you are even consciously aware of the stimulus.
And the worst thing about them IMO is that they apparently operate
under the assumption that we are all as dumb as a bunch of rocks and
will rush to their website to find out what this great weight loss
secret is.
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Peter
BlueBrooke - 09 Nov 2009 19:22 GMT
> And the worst thing about them IMO is that they apparently operate
> under the assumption that we are all as dumb as a bunch of rocks and
> will rush to their website to find out what this great weight loss
> secret is.
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> Peter
Well -- actually, they know not *all* of us are that dumb -- just a
few. And as with junk mail, it only takes a few. They count on the
few who actually click the link, and then there are the "helpers" who
repost the URLs when they reply to the messages. To me, the ones who
are "dumb as rocks" are the ones who think the spammers actually go
back and read the replies to their spam posts.
The last stat I saw on the response rate for a snail-mail campaign was
1%. I would imagine the spammers count on at least that. Just a few
is enough.
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> the amygdala reacts and initiates the release of "fight or flight" chemicals
> into your bloodstream before you are even consciously aware of the stimulus.
Breath in, breath out

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> into your bloodstream before you are even consciously aware of the
> stimulus.
You may be better off on a moderated forum. No idiot spammers there.