There's Always a Choice

My last post about spam generated some interesting comments.

One commenter suggested that spammers have to spam because they can't afford to pay for backlinks and have no other way to rank well in the search engines. I totally disagree with that position and wrote a long comment in rebuttal. I got on my soapbox so much I decided to move the soapbox to a post instead of a comment.

There are three specific reasons that I disagree with the theory that anyone has to spam.

Reason #1. I don't think...