One time my boss told me that he has a prospective client who wants a software that would parse through a file containing email addresses of different people. The software will output a database of people's names and email addresses which will later be sold to different companies so they can spam these people with emails containing products they sell. Of course this is a cheap way of doing mass marketing. Think about how many thousands of email addresses they can spam in a day and how many people can possibly respond to these emails and actually do a purchase. It is a big business! But as a web developer, I have always hated spam messages to the extent of banning them from my inbox. So how could I create a program that will be an accessory to this kind of activity when first and foremost, I am against it. I guess sometimes you just have to stand up for what you believe in. Even if it's a profitable project for my company, I did not like working for the project because it was against the values I believe in.
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