What makes them unique? If the individualisation is merely a mail
merge, they're still bulk. If the salescritter spent an hour
investigating me in order to determine that I'm a good prospect and
figure out the best way to entice me, the problem scales just fine.
And how would I, as a recipient, know which had happened?
It's usually pretty obvious from the mail itself.
And I do have some basis for that. I get spam through at least a
half-dozen different addresses, and I can count on the fingers of one
hand the number of times _ever_ that I've gotten a spam and failed to
recognize it as spam until I saw additional copies spammed to other
addresses. (And that's just considering the content. When looking at
the headers reveals that it was sent from an anonymous African host
through an unsecured Web form in Singapore, for mail that's supposedly
Canadian-to-Canadian, the chance that it's ham is ignorably low.)
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