Its a law in human network communications theory [1] that any channel will degrade to the point of being usable if there are no penalties to pay when abusing it

Its a law in human network communications theory [1] that any channel will degrade to the point of being usable if there are no penalties to pay when abusing it. There are downsides to indiscriminately mailing, posting etc. peoples inboxes (e.g. reputational damage), but this applies to entities that already have a reputation to worry about. For entities operating in "do or die mode" or are very short-termist / opportunistic even very low success rates may be rational. [1] just made this up