> This is a little off-topic, but how do spammers expect to make money > from that spam? Do they expect we would buy stocks from them? Is it
I suspect the answer is 'yes'. And some people probably will. When you pay virtually nothing for your advertizing to hundreds of millions of people (because you steal it rather than buy it) you don't have to get very many suckers to make money. I think I've heard quotes like less than 1 in 10,000. Loren