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Episode V

The Spammer Strikes Back

It is a dark time for the Internet. Although Spamford Wallace has been shut down, Atriks spammers have driven the irate users from their inboxes and pursued them into court.

Evading the dreaded Distributed Mail Corporation, a group of freedom fighters led by Jay Stuler has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Ohio.

The evil lord Darth Haberstroh, obsessed with harassing young Stuler, has dispatched thousands of spambots into the far reaches of the Internet...

Episode V

The Spammer Strikes Back

It is a dark time for the Internet. Although Spamford Wallace has been shut down, Atriks spammers have driven the irate users from their inboxes and pursued them into court.

Evading the dreaded Distributed Mail Corporation, a group of freedom fighters led by Jay Stuler has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Ohio.

The evil lord Darth Haberstroh, obsessed with harassing young Stuler, has dispatched thousands of spambots into the far reaches of the Internet...

I'm not so sure they would allow you to have multiple systems going... Reading their terms of service (here), in section 2, "Payment", it says, "You will be paid by SENDMAILS CORPORATION $1 (one dollar) for every Central Processing Unit Hour ("CPU HOUR") used by the VirtualMDA software located on your personal or business computer(s) (either or both of which shall be the "Installed Computer(s)") is actively connected to the internet ("Online"). The Installed Computer may accumulate a maximum of 24 CPU HOUR's in one day. If your UID logs more than 24 CPU HOURS in one 24 hour period, your account may be suspended or terminated for unusual or suspicious activity." [emphasis added by me] What this might be saying is that no matter how many systems you run their agent on, it is treated as one "Installed Computer" and they'll only pay you for up to 24 CPU hours in a day. I could be wrong, but it makes sense to me that they wouldn't want people setting up arrays of systems in order to maximize income - their approach works better if you just have one computer that is "flying low under the radar" of blocklists.

http://www.virtualmda.com/services.htm :

"When you decide to cash out, Sendmails will transfer the money into your paypal account within a short period of time."

http://www.virtualmda.com/download_vmda.ghc (The Terms of Service page):

"All payments shall be by check, made payable to you, and sent to you at your last known address via the U.S. Postal Service, first class mail."

As if it didn't smell funny enough already...

http://www.virtualmda.com/services.htm :

"When you decide to cash out, Sendmails will transfer the money into your paypal account within a short period of time."

http://www.virtualmda.com/download_vmda.ghc (The Terms of Service page):

"All payments shall be by check, made payable to you, and sent to you at your last known address via the U.S. Postal Service, first class mail."

As if it didn't smell funny enough already...

Upon registration our members are required to provide full name, postal address, e-mail address.... Email address is required to provide user login and/or value-added services. In addition, we require user-specific information such as interests, gender, age, household income, and education, which is used to build member profiles that are used for the purposes of targeted advertising and benefit distribution.
Sendmails Corporation will not share, sell, trade, or give away personally identifiable member information to third parties without members' explicit permission. Upon registration, all users grant to Sendmails Corporation their explicit permission (1) to contact them with important information about members' accounts and updates to our services, policies and business practices, and (2) to share members' information with third parties. The users have the option to choose not to be contacted or their information shared by terminating their account.