In-game Spam?

This has been my experience as well.
Yep, I saw it on Virtue at the WW in Atlas Park over the weekend. You can tell who these toons are (their names give them away) but it must've been a shift change since the toon didn't actually say anything while I was there.

I concur. But progress will always have opposition as with the cell phone ("Use a pay phone. They're everywhere!"), portable music players ("So AM and FM aren't good enough for you? You want to choose your own music?!?"), and so on.

It depends on where you take those characters. These people work from population centers in most games. So folks who run through places like Atlas Park, Talos Island, and PI blueside and Mercy, Cap, and Grandville redside, tend to get disproportionate amounts of email spam compared to people who either avoid those zones or don't stay in them very long. My market characters got TONS of spam emails but my play characters got relatively few (though it increased when they reached the levels they would be actively spending in the aforementioned zones).

It's like that in every MMO with email spammers. I haven't yet gotten any tell spam but I don't think it's too far away. Once they program something that allows them to automate the process, it'll become the de facto standard for these people.

It's too bad that cell phones are killing off the pay phone, though. You may sneer, but it's a different story when you need one and they're all gone.

I get this one too. I have my in game mail turned off and I see that I have 3 or 4 new e-mails. I don't have anyone in game that would send me e-mail that wouldn't just send me a tell when they are on and see me on. I like the idea of not having it there to bother me.