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DoubleClick Gets Into Spam

keytoe writes: "Well, just when we thought everyone's favorite Privacy Snoop was starting to mellow out a bit, we discover this little tidbit. DoubleClick is now branching out from the ad serving business into the SPAM business due to the fact that direct email marketing 'is one of the few forms of Internet advertising that is thriving.' Using DARTmail, you can now target your bulk mailings 'based on profile data.' I wonder which profiling data they're talking about. Perhaps, say, all the data they've been collecting for years?"

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  1. time to change /etc/hosts again... by lyapunov · · Score: 2, Redundant

    127.0.0.1 localhost.nmsu.edu localhost doubleclick.net

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    Either give it away or get top dollar, but never sell yourself cheap.