The Random Blogger

I have long believed that if you buy anything, no matter how much you want it, from a spam email, then you are contributing to the problem.

It costs very little to send out millions of spam emails, and the commission or profit from just one sale will keep these idiots in business, flooding yet more people’s inboxes with yet more spam, for another day or two.

If you really want to buy something advertised in a spam email, whether that be a watch, pills (of the “blue” kind as well as others), or any other item you may find, then please, do NOT click on the link.

Instead, go and do a search for the product using Google, or another search engine, and buy it from a legitimate website (or from somebody who conducts their business ethically and support permission email marketing).

After all, if nobody bought from a high street store, that store would soon go out of business, and the same applies to spammers. The solution is simple: don’t buy from them - ever!

So, I am pleased to say that I fully support the “Spam. Don’t Buy It.” website:

Be part of the solution, and not part of the problem: please, don’t buy from spammers, and help to spread the word - the sooner people stop buying from spammers, the sooner the problem will go away, because legislation alone won’t solve it.

I was brought up in a generation where little attention was paid to what are now known as “green issues”.

And yet, as I grow older, I find myself more and more concerned with the health of our planet.

But, having moved to a country that seems to be in a state of denial about issues such as global warming, I find it difficult to do as much as I’d like.

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